The Dictator (2012 film) comparisons to the Marx Brothers' "Duck Soup" and Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator"." The film has officially been banned in Tajikistan, described as "unlikely" to be shown in Turkmenistan, shortened to 71 minutes by the censorship in Uzbekistan, and banned from screens two weeks after its premiere in Kazakhstan. In Pakistan, only the censored version has been released. Rumours were circulating that the film has been also informally banned from showing in Belarus, but state officials denied this referring to deficiency of properly equipped movie theaters suitable for showing the film distributed exclusively in digital format. The film was also
The Dictator Pope and distanced themselves from his critique of Pope Francis. The Order later expelled Sire on November 19, 2018. The Polish edition of "The Dictator Pope" (titled: "Papież dyktator. Skrywana historia pontyfikatu papieża Franciszka") is to be released somehow in the middle of November 2018. The Dictator Pope The Dictator Pope: The Inside Story of the Francis Papacy () is a biography of Pope Francis authored by the Anglo–French historian H. J. A. Sire under the pseudonym "Marcantonio Colonna" (the name of a Catholic admiral who fought at the Battle of Lepanto). Published initially in Italian, and later in English, the