Dictator: One Crazy Job (2013)

Dictator: One Crazy Job

2013

Documentary TV Movie

Synopsis

They’ve become the human face of inhuman barbarity. Leaders like Hitler, Idi Amin Dada, Stalin, Kim Jong Il, Saddam Hussein, Nicolae Ceausescu, Bokassa, Muammar Kadhafi, Khomeini, Mussolini and Franco governed their countries completely cut off from reality. These paranoid leaders were driven to abuse their power by the pathology of power itself. Dictators are driven by a relentless, thought-out determination to impose themselves as infallible, all-knowing and all-powerful beings. But they are also men ruled by their caprices, uncontrollable impulses, and reckless fits of frenzy, which paradoxically render them as human as anyone else. The abuses they committed were clearly atrocious, yet some of them were as outlandish as the characters portrayed in the film The Dictator. They sunk to depths worthy of Kafka: so incredibly absurd, they are outrageously funny.

Credits

Director

Alain Charlot

Cast

Frédéric Lagache as Self (archive footage)

Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow as Self (archive footage)

Jean-Claude Narcy as Self (archive footage)

Kenji Fujimoto as Self

Kim Jong-il as Self (archive footage)

Martin Bouygues as Self (archive footage)

Nicolas Righetti as Self

Recep Cesur as Self