Movie
The Dictator
Overview
The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
Details
- Release date
- 2012-05-15
- Runtime
- 83 min
- Genres
- Comedy
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Paramount Pictures, Berg Mandel Schaffer Productions, Scott Rudin Productions, Four by Two Films
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Sacha Baron Cohen as Aladeen / Efawadh
- Ben Kingsley as Tamir
- Anna Faris as Zoey
- Jason Mantzoukas as Nadal
- Sayed Badreya as Omar
- Adeel Akhtar as Maroush
- Aasif Mandvi as Doctor
- Rizwan Manji as Patient
- Rocky Citron as Baby Aladeen
- Liam Campora as Aladeen Age 6
- Rick Chambers as Newscaster Voiceover (voice)
- Elsayed Mohamed as Wadiyan Olympic Official
Crew
- Larry Charles - Director
- Sacha Baron Cohen - Screenplay
- Alec Berg - Screenplay
- Jeff Schaffer - Screenplay
- David Mandel - Screenplay
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