Dictator: One Crazy Job

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

Recep Cesur

Recep Cesur

as Self

Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein

as Self (archive footage)

Kenji Fujimoto

Kenji Fujimoto

as Self

Kim Jong-il

Kim Jong-il

as Self (archive footage)

Nicolas Righetti

Nicolas Righetti

as Self

Saparmyrat Nyýazow

Saparmyrat Nyýazow

as Self (archive footage)

Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow

Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow

as Self (archive footage)

Frédéric Lagache

Frédéric Lagache

as Self (archive footage)

Martin Bouygues

Martin Bouygues

as Self (archive footage)

Jean-Claude Narcy

Jean-Claude Narcy

as Self (archive footage)

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