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—by turns charming, menacing, and nonsensical—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.
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STARS...........: Idi Amin, Fidel Castro, Golda Meir
DIRECTOR........: Barbet Schroeder
WRITERS.........: Barbet Schroeder
GENRE...........: Documentary
IMDB............: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071544 RUNTIME.........: 1h 30mn
SIZE............: 6.52 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC ( [email protected])
BITRATE.........: 10000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1480x1080
ASPECT RATIO....: 1.37:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO...........: English FLAC 1.0
SUBTITLES.......: ENG
SOURCE..........: Criterion Blu-ray
ENCODE DATE.....: 2022-07-08
Extras
• Interviews from 2001 and 2017 with Schroeder
• New interview with journalist and author Andrew Rice about Idi Amin’s regime
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