The Dictator DVD (2012) Sacha Baron Cohen, Charles (DIR) cert 15 Title: The Dictator Leading Actor: Sacha Baron Cohen Duration: 83 mins Format: DVD / Normal Type: DVD Studio / Publisher: Elevation Sales UK Release Date: 26 Nov 2012 Edition: Normal Comedy written by and starring Sacha Baron Cohen following the dedicated attempts of a dictator to stave off the terrible threat of democracy. Like all good dictators, General Admiral Aladeen (Cohen), the self-described ‘Supreme Leader, All Triumphant General and Chief Opthalmologist of the People’s Republic of Wadiya’, understands that the people of his nation don’t really know what they want - only he does. That’s why democracy is such a terrible threat and why Aladeen must cast himself against it with as much vigour as he can muster. Unfortunately, in the form of ill-intentioned meddlers like the United States of America and the United Nations, Aladeen also faces external threats to his rule. The film follows him as he heads to a UN meeting in York to defy his enemies and their muddled notions of ‘rule by the people’.
