How to Feed a Dictator

# Summary "How to Feed a Dictator," a new documentary premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival, features interviews with five personal chefs who served brutal dictators including Idi Amin, Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong-il, and Pol Pot, exploring the moral compromises and dangers inherent in their positions. The film examines how these chefs balanced survival and comfort against complicity in regimes responsible for mass atrocities, using food as a lens to understand the "banality of evil" within authoritarian systems. Based on a 2020 book by Polish journalist Witold Szabłowski, the documentary presents starkly different perspectives on service—from one chef who still reveres her former boss to another tormented by guilt over the privileges he accepted.