Dictator: One Crazy Job
2013-06-12 | 52 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
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Saddam HusseinSelf (archive footage)
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Kim Jong-ilSelf (archive footage)
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Saparmyrat NyýazowSelf (archive footage)
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Gurbanguly BerdimuhamedowSelf (archive footage)
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Martin BouyguesSelf (archive footage)
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Jean-Claude NarcySelf (archive footage)
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Patrick Le LaySelf (archive footage)
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Teodoro Obiang NguemaSelf (archive footage)
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Jean-Bedel BokassaSelf (archive footage)
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Kirsan IlyumzhinovSelf (archive footage)
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Tristan Mendès FranceSelf
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Ramzan KadyrovSelf (archive footage)
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