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Criterion Collection: General Idi Amin Dada
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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ln 1974, Barbet Schroeder went to Uganda to make a fiIm about ldi Amin, the country's ruthless, charismatic dictator. Three years into a murderous regime that wouId be responsibIe for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Ugandans, Amin prepared a triumphal greeting for the filmmakers, staging raIIies, miIitary maneuvers, and cheery displays of nationaI pride, and envisioning the film as an official portrait to adorn his cuIt of personality. Schroeder, however, had other ideas, emerging with a disquieting, causticaIly funny brief against Amin, in which the dictator's own endless stream of testimony charming, menacing, and nonsensicaI by turns serves as the most damning evidence. A revelatory tug-of-war between subject and filmmaker, General ldi Amin Dada: A Self-Portrait is a Iandmark in the art of documentary and an appalIing study of egotism in power.
DlRECTOR-APPROVED DVD SPEClAL EDITION FEATURES
- New, restored 2K digital transfer, supervised by director Barbet Schroeder
- New interview with Schroeder
- New interview with journalist and author Andrew Rice about Idi Amin's regime
- PLUS: An essay by critic J. Hoberman |
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