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Dictator: One Crazy Job

65 %|Jun 12, 2013|Documentary, TV Movie

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.

Featured Crew

Alain Charlot
Director
Jérémy Laval
Video Assist Operator
Guillaume Albeck
Music
Gaëlle Lhostis
Production Manager
Marius Doicov
Cinematography
Vincent Neveu
Video Assist Operator
Isabelle Fuhrmann
Production Manager
Stéphane Rossi
Cinematography

Cast

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Saddam Hussein
Self (archive footage)
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Kim Jong-il
Self (archive footage)
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Saparmyrat Nyýazow
Self (archive footage)
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Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
Self (archive footage)
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Frédéric Lagache
Self (archive footage)
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Martin Bouygues
Self (archive footage)
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Jean-Claude Narcy
Self (archive footage)
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Patrick Le Lay
Self (archive footage)
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Teodoro Obiang Nguema
Self (archive footage)
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Jean-Bedel Bokassa
Self (archive footage)
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Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
Self (archive footage)
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Ramzan Kadyrov
Self (archive footage)
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Diego Maradona
Self (archive footage)
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Jean-Pierre Papin
Self (archive footage)
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Luís Figo
Self (archive footage)
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Dowlet Amanlykow
Self (archive footage)
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John Wayne
Self (archive footage)
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Muammar Gaddafi
Self (archive footage)
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Idi Amin
Self (archive footage)
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Thein Sein
Self (archive footage)