The Dictator Hunter
- Original title
- The Dictator Hunter
- Year
- 2007
- Running time
- 56 min.
- Country
- Netherlands
- Director
- Cast
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Documentary, Self: Reed Brody, Souleymane Guengueng
- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Documentary | Half-length Film
- Synopsis
- "If you kill one person, you go to jail. If you kill 40 people, they put you in an insane asylum. But if you kill 40, 000 people, you get a comfortable exile with a bank account in another country, and that's what we want to change here," says Reed Brody. Brody hunts dictators for a living as a lawyer for Human Rights Watch. For seven years, Brody has been chasing one former dictator in particular: Hissène Habré, the former leader of Chad, who is charged with killing thousands of his own countrymen in the 1980s. Now Habré lives in Senegal where Brody is attempting to have him brought to trial or extradited. In The Dictator Hunter we follow Brody over the course of two suspenseful years as he travels through Africa, Europe and the United States. He conducts diplomacy like the chess games he plays with his son. But in his work, the chess pieces are politicians, journalists and judges that Brody positions against his opponent. The Dictator Hunter shows what it takes for one man to break the cycle of impunity...
- Awards
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2008: European Film Awards: Nominated for Best Documentary
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