Jean-Bedel Bokassa

Jean-Bedel Bokassa

Born: February 22, 1921
Died: November 3, 1996

Movies for Jean-Bedel Bokassa...

Dictator: One Crazy Job
Title: Dictator: One Crazy Job
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 12, 2013
Type: Movie
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.
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Notre ami l'empereur Bokassa Ier
Title: Notre ami l'empereur Bokassa Ier
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 19, 2011
Type: Movie
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Bokassa Ier, empereur de Françafrique
Title: Bokassa Ier, empereur de Françafrique
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 31, 2011
Type: Movie
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Echoes from a Sombre Empire
Title: Echoes from a Sombre Empire
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 28, 1990
Type: Movie
Documentary examining Bokassa's rule in the Central African Republic using the testimony of witnesses and visits to key sites.