Dictator: One Crazy Job (2013): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 2013, Dictator: One Crazy Job is a tv movie and documentary film directed by Alain Charlot, running about 52 minutes.

What it’s about. 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.

Who’s in it. Dictator: One Crazy Job stars Recep Cesur as Self, Saddam Hussein as Self (archive footage), Kenji Fujimoto as Self and Kim Jong-il as Self (archive footage), among others.

How it landed. With an audience score of 6.5/10, Dictator: One Crazy Job has drawn a solid, mixed-to-positive response.

Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Dictator: One Crazy Job page.

If you liked it. Fans of Dictator: One Crazy Job tend to enjoy Miraculous World: New York, United HeroeZ, Sherlock: The Abominable Bride, Steven Universe: The Movie and Twin Peaks.