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In 1974, Barbet Schroeder went to Uganda to make a film about Idi Amin, the country's ruthless, charismatic dictator. Three years into a murderous regime that would be responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Ugandans, Amin prepared a triumphal greeting for the filmmakers, staging rallies, military maneuvers, and cheery displays of national pride, and envisioning the film as an official portrait to adorn his cult of personality. Schroeder, however, had other ideas, emerging with a disquieting, caustically funny brief against Amin, in which the dictator's own endless stream of testimony charming, menacing, and nonsensical by turns serves as the most damning evidence. A revelatory tug-of-war between subject and filmmaker, General Idi Amin Dada: A Self-Portrait is a landmark in the art of documentary and an appalling study of egotism in power.
CONDITION: NEW
Actors: Idi Amin Dada
Directors: Barbet Schroeder
Format: Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Region: Region A/1
Number of discs: 1
Rated:
Not Rated
Studio: Criterion Collection
DVD Release Date: December 12, 2017
Run Time: 90 minutes
Cast & Crew
Idi Amin Participant
Technical Credits
Barbet Schroeder Director,Screenwriter
Nestor Almendros Cinematographer
Denise de Casabianca Editor
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