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General Idi Amin Dada

General Idi Amin Dada

7,0 /10 (37 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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Release date

29/05/1974

Votes

37

Popularity

0.4

A self portrait.

Genres

Status

Released

Original title

Général Idi Amin Dada: Autoportrait

Language

FR

Runtime

90 min

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adorablepanic

2020-04-18

⭐ 7

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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