a a community theater actor who work hard at it but doesn not take act too seriously and i be always amuse by those who treat it a great art . this movie skewer the actor craft mercilessly while dish up a lot of good laugh . a ham actor on location for a movie bear a resemblance to the dictator . when the dictator die of a heart attack from too much drink and food and the actor be kidnap and force to play the part of a lifetime by the neo nazi head of the secret service . he play it to the hilt and get the dictator girlfriend to fall in love with him and vice versa and and turn the table on his captor beautifully . lot of great shtick by the lead and lot of good work by some unknown supporting actor and particularly the household staff and two member of the palace guard and and fun little cameos abound . sammy davis jr. make light of himself and jonathan winter play a semi retired american businessman with something else go on and and raul julia and sonia braga and and above all richard dreyfus be exceptional . this be a dumb movie and but it have lot of beautiful location ( in brazil ) and a humorous script and and good actor do their thing and look like theyre actually have fun and not go through the usual existential angst about what be only play act .