General Idi Amin Dada
Général Idi Amin Dada: Autoportrait
A self portrait.
Overview
Filmmaker Barbet Schroeder shows the Ugandan dictator meeting his Cabinet, reviewing his troops, explaining his ideology.
- Production
- Le Figaro, Mara Films, Télévision Rencontre, ORTF
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Cast
Crew
- Director
- Barbet Schroeder
- Writers
- Barbet Schroeder
- Cinematography
- Néstor Almendros
- Composer
- Idi Amin
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adorablepanic
April 18, 2020
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; exhorti…