Dictator: One Crazy Job

Overview

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.

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Cast

Recep Cesur

Self

Saddam Hussein

Self (archive footage)

Kenji Fujimoto

Self

Kim Jong-il

Self (archive footage)

Nicolas Righetti

Self

Saparmyrat Nyýazow

Self (archive footage)

Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow

Self (archive footage)

Frédéric Lagache

Self (archive footage)

Martin Bouygues

Self (archive footage)

Jean-Claude Narcy

Self (archive footage)