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Films about totalitarianism, a form of government and a political system that prohibits all opposition parties, outlaws individual and group opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high degree of control and regulation over public and private life. It is regarded as the most extreme and complete form of authoritarianism.
Power Play (also known as Coup d'Etat, [2] A State of Shock and Operation Overthrow) is a 1978 British-Canadian political thriller film directed by Martyn Burke and starring Peter O'Toole and David Hemmings. [3] It was written by Burke and Edward N. Luttwak based on the latter's 1968 non-fiction strategy book Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook. [4]
For a mainstream movie "The Wave“ was often "pleasantly rough and snotty“, they reported. [19] Other critics accused the movie of being conventionally staged, similar to a Tatort-police procedural TV series, [25] or let off steam about the "graffiti-scenes and a nearly never-ending escalating party scene." [23]
The movie, based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, was remade in 2006, a version poorly reviewed despite an all-star cast that includes Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet and Anthony Hopkins. 28 ...
Political satire: Antisemitism, Fascism: 1941 Love on the Dole: John Baxter: Drama: Great Depression, Unemployment benefits: 1941 "Pimpernel" Smith: Leslie Howard: Thriller: Anti-Nazism, World War II: 1945 Espoir: Sierra de Teruel: André Malraux and Boris Peskine: War: Spanish Civil War (Battle of Teruel) 1948 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ...
A disturbing development in America has been the increase in words supporting authoritarianism and threats of violence against anyone who opposes. Opinion: Some political language tries to steer ...
Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom (Ukrainian: Зима у вогні: Боротьба України за свободу, romanized: Zyma u vohni: Borotba Ukrainy za svobodu) is a 2015 documentary film directed by Evgeny Afineevsky, written by Den Tolmor about the Euromaidan protests in Ukraine from 21 November 2013 to 23 February 2014.
In most instances, the elected leader is appointed to act on behalf of the general will. Authoritarian elections, on the other hand, are frequently subject to fraud and extreme constraints on the participation of opposing parties. [39] Autocratic leaders employ tactics like murdering political opposition and paying election monitors to ensure ...