The premise of this is a reporter and her cameraman enter the palace of the dictator of an obscure eastern European country who, in the middle of nowhere, has built a huge auditorium with a pipe organ. Suddenly the dictator appears and guns down everyone except the reporter and an organist. From there a the play unfolds into an examination of power, the media and how history remembers it's monsters.
John Malkovich gives a wonderful performance going from evil to vulnerable, comedic to shocking. In spite of yourself you can't help liking this dictator just a bit.
The reporter who plays the foil to the dictator interviews him and becomes drawn to him but, ultimately, hates what he is. Just as news media loves the world's villains as they are draw to their channel/magazine/news paper.
Well worth a watch.
John Malkovich gives a wonderful performance going from evil to vulnerable, comedic to shocking. In spite of yourself you can't help liking this dictator just a bit.
The reporter who plays the foil to the dictator interviews him and becomes drawn to him but, ultimately, hates what he is. Just as news media loves the world's villains as they are draw to their channel/magazine/news paper.
Well worth a watch.
