Table of contents:
- Joseph Stalin
- Adolf Gitler
- Benito Mussolini
- Kim Jong Il
- Mao Zedong
- Fidel Castro
- Saddam Hussein
- Muammar Gaddafi
Video: What films did famous dictators like to watch?
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
History knows many examples of tough government. Their cruelty and omnipotence led to the tragedies of entire nations and the death of many people. But they were not alien to simple human weaknesses. They fell in love, got married, raised children, were fond of art and watched films. In our today's review, we invite you to get acquainted with those films that were loved and watched by the most famous dictators.
Joseph Stalin
The Soviet ruler was a real moviegoer, but he did not watch everything. Among his favorite films are the musical comedies "Circus", "Funny Guys" and "Volga-Volga", he often revisited comedies with the participation of Charlie Chaplin. When the film "Chapaev" was filmed, Stalin personally chose one of the three finals offered to him, it was he who entered the picture. He considered it inappropriate to show the audience the living Chapaev, if everyone knows about his death.
Joseph Stalin did not refuse to watch foreign films, preferring, however, comedy films or action-packed films. The leader more than once watched "His Butler's Sister" with Dina Durbin and sometimes returned to the film "One Hundred Men and One Woman". And after watching the American film "Tarzan: The Ape Man" Iosif Vissarionovich personally ordered to release it, although Soviet viewers could only see it in 1952.
The first part of Ivan the Terrible by Sergei Eisenstein, Donkey by Mikhail Romm, Katya by Maurice Tourneur, Girlfriend by Leo Arnshtam, The New Gulliver by Alexander Ptushko and the trilogy about Maxim by Grigory Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg appear on the list of Stalin's film preferences.
Adolf Gitler
Adolf Hitler was also a fan of cinematography, who daily allotted time to watch films. At the same time, he could enjoy watching films of completely different genres. Musicals and westerns, historical dramas and comedies - Hitler really saw a lot of pictures. But in the first place in the list of preferences of the Fuhrer were "Metropolis" and "Nibelungs" by Fritz Lang, and also "King Kong" in 1933. But his greatest love was Disney cartoons, he himself drew the characters of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", and also enjoyed the series of cartoons with the participation of Mickey Mouse.
Benito Mussolini
The Italian dictator himself was involved in filmmaking, it was he who created the Cinecitta film studio in 1937, he also sponsored the film Scipio Africanus by Carmine Gallone. And he himself was a big fan of the actress Anita Page, whose films he watched endlessly. He even wrote Page about a hundred letters a year and invited her to become his wife, which angered MGM studio vice-president Irving Thalberg, who forbade Anita Page to write Mussolini responses. The Duce collection contained the Austrian-Czechoslovak film "Ecstasy", widely known for the first erotic scene in the history of feature films.
Kim Jong Il
The North Korean leader owned a huge film collection, which contained about 20 thousand films. Most of them were Hollywood, and Kim Jong Il himself was always interested in new products and loved to speculate about the films nominated for the Oscar. He also liked Japanese films, but Kim Jong Il did not share the pictures by genres.
Kidnapped in 1978 by order of the North Korean leader, director Shin Sang Ok from South Korea, who fled in 1986 on a business trip to a film festival, spoke about the dictator's attitude to cinema. The most surprising thing was that Kim Jong Il categorically did not separate reality and fiction, and perceived films as events that actually happened. This applied to both James Bond and Rambo films, as well as musicals and horror films.
Mao Zedong
The Chinese helmsman had a special love of reading, but over the years his vision deteriorated, and doctors recommended that Mao Zedong take care of his eyes and refuse books. It was then that he became interested in cinema and began to watch many films. His heart was truly touched by the paintings of Bruce Lee, whom the Chinese leader sincerely considered a hero.
Fidel Castro
The Cuban leader was a big fan of literature, and the works of Hemingway, Kafka, Cervantes and Marquez took pride of place on his bookshelf. The art of cinema also did not leave the commandante indifferent, and his favorite film was Sergei Bondarchuk's epic War and Peace, which he could revisit many times. Among the preferences of Fidel Castro were the paintings of Steven Spielberg, and he could watch films with Charlie Chaplin almost every day, if there was time for that.
Saddam Hussein
It is known that the favorite film of the Iraqi leader was The Godfather. However, he enjoyed watching thrillers and those pictures, after watching which one could speculate about conspiracy theory: "Enemy of the State", "Day of the Jackal" and "Conversation". He also reviewed John Sturges' film The Old Man and the Sea several times.
Muammar Gaddafi
The Libyan leader was a big fan of the American science fiction series Star Trek and even seriously studied the Klingon language invented by the filmmakers. He planned to translate his own book on it. Muammar Gaddafi had at his disposal a complete collection of films with the participation of Steven Seagal and could repeatedly revise "The Adventures of Bakar Banzai in the Eighth Dimension" directed by W. D. Richter.
The composition of the menu of famous authoritarian rulers is of certain interest both for professional culinary specialists and for the most ordinary people. What dishes did the leaders of the countries prefer? and what precautions did some of them take for fear of poisoning?
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