General Idi Amin Dada: Self Portrait

General Idi Amin Dada: Self Portrait

Criterion/Voyager (1974)
Comedy, Family, War, Documentary
USA / English / Color / 90 min
7.5
Cast
Idi Amin Himself
Fidel Castro Himself
Golda Meir Herself
Crew View More ↓
Director Barbet Schroeder
Writer Barbet Schroeder, Amin Jensen
Producer Charles-Henri Favrod, Jean-Pierre Rassam, Jean-François Chauvel
Plot
Uganda's dictator, General Idi Amin Dada, accepts a foreign crew's request to interview and film him. He talks to the camera about his outreach to Arab nations, his goal of eradicating Israel, his views on economic policy, and his views of Nixon, Kissinger, and other world leaders. We also see him dressing down his ministers at a cabinet meeting (two weeks after this meeting, the foreign minister, whom Amin criticizes here, is murdered), supervising a war-game simulation of an invasion of Israel, visiting a village, and addressing a conclave of Ugandan physicians.
Editions
Barcode Format Region Release Edition
037429166529 1 2002-05-14
5060000402131 1 2007-05-14