The Dictator (2012 film)
The Dictator is a 2012 political satire comedy film co-written by and starring Sacha Baron Cohen. Baron Cohen stars as Admiral General Aladeen, the dictator of the fictional Republic of Wadiya visiting the United States. The movie is a satire of dictators like Kim Jong-il, Idi Amin, Muammar Gaddafi, Mobutu Sese Seko, and Saparmurat Niyazov. It is the fourth feature film in a leading role for Baron Cohen, and his first since Borat in 2011.
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The Dictator is a 2012 political satire comedy film co-written by and starring Sacha Baron Cohen. The film is directed by Larry Charles, who previously directed Baron Cohen’s mockumentaries Borat and Brüno. Baron Cohen stars as Admiral General Aladeen, the dictator of the fictional Republic of Wadiya visiting the United States. Anna Faris, Ben Kingsley, Jason Mantzoukas, and an uncredited appearance by John C. Reilly also star in the film. The movie is a satire of dictators like Kim Jong-il, Idi Amin, Muammar Gaddafi, Mobutu Sese Seko, and Saparmurat Niyazov. It is the fourth feature film in a leading role for Baron Cohen, and his first since Borat in 2011. The plot involves Aladean’s attempt to open up the country’s oil fields to the Chinese and other foreign vested interests. The United Nations Security Council resolves to intervene militarily, and Aladeem travels to the UN Headquarters in New York City to address the council. However, upon seeing Zoey, a human rights activist who offers him a job at her socially progressive, alternative lifestyle co-op, he falls in love with her. After acquiring a new beard from the corpse of a man who was fooled into thinking he was the Supreme Leader, he vows to democratize his country and open up his oil fields for business in a way where the general populace will benefit from the benefits of his dictatorship.
He is eventually overthrown by his uncle Tamir, who replaces him with a dimwitted lookalike named Efawadh, whom he intends to manipulate into signing a document nominally democratizing the country. The final confrontation takes place in a New York restaurant run by and visited by refugees from his own country, and meets him in a restaurant he had ordered to be executed. After the film’s release, Baron Cohen said that he was inspired by real-life dictators like North African dictator Kim Jong Il. He also said that the film is a tribute to Kim Jongil, who he said was his inspiration for the character of the dictator in The Dictatorship of Haffaz al-Aden. It was released on September 14, 2012, in the UK and the U.S. on September 19, 2012 in the US and on September 20, 2013 in Australia and the UK. It has been released in France and Australia on September 21, 2013, and September 28, 2014 in the Netherlands and the Netherlands, and on October 27, 2014 elsewhere in the world.
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