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.
Alain Charlot
Director
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)
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