Dictator: One Crazy Job

Dictator: One Crazy Job

52 mins | Documentary | June 12, 2013

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.

Dictator: One Crazy Job

52 mins | Documentary | June 12, 2013

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.
Producers Canal+, BeTV, Planète+, CAPA, Canal+ Afrique
Original title Dictateur, un boulot de dingue
Directors Alain Charlot
Writers

Cast

Recep Cesur

as Self

Saddam Hussein

as Self (archive footage)

Kenji Fujimoto

as Self

Kim Jong-il

as Self (archive footage)

Saparmyrat Nyýazow

as Self (archive footage)

Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow

as Self (archive footage)

Frédéric Lagache

as Self (archive footage)

Martin Bouygues

as Self (archive footage)

Jean-Claude Narcy

as Self (archive footage)

Patrick Le Lay

as Self (archive footage)

John Ribeiro

as Self

Teodoro Obiang Nguema

as Self (archive footage)

Jean-Bedel Bokassa

as Self (archive footage)

Vasile Crisan

as Self

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov

as Self (archive footage)

Germina Nagat

as Self

Ramzan Kadyrov

as Self (archive footage)

Diego Maradona

as Self (archive footage)

Jean-Pierre Papin

as Self (archive footage)

Luís Figo

as Self (archive footage)

William Hakvaag

as Self

Dowlet Amanlykow

as Self (archive footage)

John Wayne

as Self (archive footage)

Muammar Gaddafi

as Self (archive footage)

Idi Amin

as Self (archive footage)

Thein Sein

as Self (archive footage)