Dictator: One Crazy Job
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Directed by Alain Charlot
The story
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 & crew
Saddam HusseinSelf (archive footage)
Kim Jong-ilSelf (archive footage)
Saparmyrat NyýazowSelf (archive footage)
Gurbanguly BerdimuhamedowSelf (archive footage)
Martin BouyguesSelf (archive footage)
Jean-Claude NarcySelf (archive footage)
Patrick Le LaySelf (archive footage)Explore the crew
- Director
- Alain Charlot
- Editor
- Laurent Follea