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 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)

Patrick Le Lay Self (archive footage)

John Ribeiro Self

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