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Criterion Collection: General Idi Amin Dada
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(BLU-RAY US Import)
(US-Import)
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In 1974, Barbet Schroeder went to Uganda to make a film about ldi Amin, the country's ruthless, charismatic dictator. Three years into a murderous regime that would 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 officiaI portrait to adorn his cuIt of personality. Schroeder, however, had other ideas, emerging with a disquieting, causticaIIy funny brief against Amin, in which the dictator's own endIess 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 BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDlTlON FEATURES
- New, restored 2K digital transfer, supervised by director Barbet Schroeder, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- New interview with Schroeder
- New interview with journaIist and author Andrew Rice about ldi Amin's regime
- PLUS: An essay by critic J. Hoberman |
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