General Idi Amin Dada
Subtitle: a self-portrait
By: producers, Jean-François Chauvel, Charles-Henri Favrod, Jean-Pierre Rassam ; written and directed by Barbet Schroeder
Contributors: Amin, Idi, 1925-2003, interviewee, on-screen participant
Edition: [Director-approved special edition].
Series: The Criterion collection -- 153; Criterion collection -- 153.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 90
Subjects: Interviews; Dictators; Biography; History
Other titles: General Idi Amin Dada (Motion picture)
Description: Portrait of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin at the height of his power through several interviews and other informal settings as the filmmakers follow his daily activities.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1974.

Mono, full screen 1.37:1.

Essay by critic J. Hoberman in container.

Features: interviews from 2001 and 2017 with Schroeder, new interview with journalist and author Andrew Rice about Idi Amin's regime.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

For private home use only.

In English with optional English subtitles.