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General Idi Amin Dada

Name: General Idi Amin Dada
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1974-05-29
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 7

★ 7,0 /10 (39 Votes)

1974 FR 90 min

Overview

Filmmaker Barbet Schroeder shows the Ugandan dictator meeting his Cabinet, reviewing his troops, explaining his ideology.

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29/05/1974

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1.5

A self portrait.

Genres

Documentary

Status

Released

Original title

Général Idi Amin Dada: Autoportrait

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Runtime

90 min

Idi Amin

Himself (as Idi Amin Dada)

Fidel Castro

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Golda Meir

Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)

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Director Barbet Schroeder's 1974 documentary GENERAL IDI AMIN DADA [A SELF PORTRAIT] may be the ultimate realization of the phrase 'give 'em enough rope.' Schroeder just turns the camera on and lets Amin dictate the itinerary. In addition to endless parades involving his obviously strapped-for-resources military (one sequence finds paratroopers training with a metal playground slide while onlookers laugh uproariously), we also catch the dictator trying to (literally) talk to the animals; exhorting his government ministers to be more masculine; lecturing the hospitals' doctors on the importance…

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