My Dictator

Oct 30, 2014

2h 8m

★ 6.9

One man's secret existence at the first inter-korean summit in 1972.

Overview

Sung-geun is an untalented actor who makes a living playing minor roles. He happens to land on the role as Kim Il-sung, the former leader of North Korea, for the rehearsal of the South-North Korea Summit. Sung-geun becomes passionately immersed in his role, motivated by his son who looks up to him. However, the summit is not realized, and Sung-geun ends up lost in the delusion that he really is Kim Il-sung.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Lotte Entertainment

Banzakbanzak Film Production

My Dictator Trailers

Cast

Sung-geun

Sul Kyung-gu

Tae-sik

Park Hae-il

Chief Oh

Yoon Je-moon

Professor Heo

Lee Byung-joon

Yeo-jeong

Ryu Hye-young

Nurse

Jang So-yeon

Cheol-Ju

Lee Kyoo-hyung

Young Tae-sik

Park Min soo

Sung-geun's Mother

Son Young-soon

President Baek

Bae Sung-woo

Big Guy

Son Sang-kyung

President

Jeon Kuk-hwan

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