General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait (Blu-ray)

A self portrait.
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  • Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region A
  • Released: December 12, 2017
  • Originally Released: 1974
  • Label: Criterion Collection

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Total Count: 17

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User Ratings: 908
Rating: 3.5/5 -- The film is virtually a self-portrait -- both terrifying and sorrowful. Full Review
New York Times
May 9, 2005
...Both terrifying and sorrowful.
New York Times
Apr 7, 1975
Rating: 5/5 -- General Idi Amin Dada is still evocative because it is still bizarre. Full Review
Nonfics
Jun 3, 2014
Rating: 2.5/4 -- Idi Amin Dada is not a particularly good documentary, but it's often a fascinating one. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Oct 24, 2004
Rating: B -- 'Knowing how ruthless and psychotic General Idi Amin Dada is makes Schroeder's documentary all the more compelling. Full Review
Old School Reviews
Jul 19, 2002
So the film comes off as a comic opera of a big man playing little boy soldier. Full Review
Los Angeles Free Press
Oct 29, 2019
[A] fascinating, often disturbing 'self-portrait', shot at the mid-point of his catastrophic rule.
Sight and Sound
Jul 1, 2007

Product Description:

A portrait of the inadvertently comic but bloodthirsty Dictator of Uganda. Features an accordion soundtrack performed by the dictator himself.

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  • Sales Rank: 78,258
  • UPC: 715515207416
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