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General Idi Amin Dada (1974)

May 29, 1974 Documentary 1h 30m
User Score
70%
34 votes
Internet Movie Database
73%
Rotten Tomatoes
80%

A self portrait.

Overview

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

Barbet Schroeder
Director

Top Billed Cast

Idi Amin
Idi Amin

Himself (as Idi Amin Dada)
Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Golda Meir
Golda Meir

Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Full Cast & Crew

Media

"General Idi Amin Dada [A Self Portrait]" (1974 - Barbet Schroeder)
"General Idi Amin Dada [A Self Portrait]" (1974 - Barbet Schroeder)
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A review by adorablepanic
Written on 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; exhorting his government ministers to be more masculine; lecturing the hospitals' doctors on the importance of not being drunk; informing the male leader of Tanzania that he would happily marry him if his hair wasn't gray and he had the right parts; and referencing his sexual marksmanship as it applies to ...

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