Self - Politician (archive footage)
El despiadado dictador Teodoro Obiang ha gobernado Guinea Ecuatorial con mano de hierro desde 1979. Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel es el escritor ecuatoguineano más traducido, pero tuvo que huir del país en 2011, después de iniciar una huelga de hambre denunciando los crímenes de la dictadura. Desde entonces, ha vivido en España, sintiendo que, a pesar de los riesgos, debe regresar y luchar contra el monstruo… con palabras.
Self (archive footage)
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.
