Dictator: One Crazy Job (2013)
• June 12th, 2013 • 0h 52min
Documentary, TV Movie
Overview
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.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
The Death of Hitler: The Story of a State Secret
Released on: 2017-04-07
Documentary, History, TV Movie
On April 30, 1945, while the Russian Army surrounded Berlin, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker....
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
Released on: 2000-05-31
Documentary
Documents the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of Greenwood i...
1974, l'alternance Giscard
Released on: 2019-10-05
Documentary, TV Movie, History
In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became the third President of the Fifth Republic. An alternati...
The History of White People in America
Released on: 1985-06-04
Comedy, TV Movie
In this parody of documentaries, host Martin Mull discusses the contributions that white people have...
The Certainty of Probabilities
Released on: 2021-06-14
Documentary
1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the y...
The Kidnapped Filmmakers of North Korea
Released on: 2022-09-06
Documentary
In 1978, two South Korean filmmakers--Director Shin Sang-ok and his star actress and ex-wife, Choi E...
Let All Children Smile
Released on: 1957-01-01
Documentary
The film's protagonists are the orphaned children taken into custody by the state and institutionali...
Helping Mihaela
Released on: 2011-09-22
Documentary
A Roma beggar on his knees raises many extreme emotions: guilt, rage, sympathy and frustration. Most...
Women of Today
Released on: 1958-01-01
Documentary
Made on the occasion of March 8, it presents a series of brief portraits of women, from various prof...
Fascism in Colour
Released on: 2006-01-01
Documentary, History
After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist...
The Iceman and the Psychiatrist
Released on: 2004-06-01
Documentary, Crime, Thriller, Horror
For the third time, HBO cameras go inside Trenton State Maximum Security Prison--and inside the mind...
Hair
Released on: 1972-06-30
Documentary
A satirical look at the Soviet-block hairdressing contest which was held in Warsaw in 1971.
Cinema in the Land of Comrade Kim
Released on: 2024-10-12
Documentary, History
The love of Kim Jong Il, the former dictator of North Korea, for cinema and his adventures, includin...
The World According to Parr
Released on: 2003-12-03
Documentary
Alan Yentob explores the work of Martin Parr, considered to be the most influential photographer of ...
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
Released on: 1985-11-24
Adventure, Family, TV Movie, Science Fiction, Fantasy
The army of the Marauders, led by King Terak and the witch Charal, attack the Ewoks village, killing...
French Silk
Released on: 1994-01-23
TV Movie, Thriller
Claire Laurent is a New Orleans lingerie manufacturer accused of murder, who falls in love with the ...
Shadow Flowers
Released on: 2021-10-27
Documentary
Ryun-hee Kim, a North Korean housewife, was forced to come to South Korea and became its citizen aga...
Top Gear: The Burma Special
Released on: 2014-06-02
Documentary, Comedy
In this special Clarkson, Hammond and May don’t just buy three knackered old lorries and drive miles...