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Title:

General Idi Amin Dada : a self portrait / directed by Barbet Schroeder ; produced by Charles-Henri Favrod, Jean-Pierre Rassam.

Edition:

Director-approved DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; widescreen.

Publisher:

Criterion Collection,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Amin, Idi,--1925-2003.
Dictators--Uganda.
Political atrocities--Uganda--History--20th century.
Uganda--History--1971-1979.
Uganda--Politics and government--1971-1979.
Documentary films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

Schroeder, Barbet, screenwriter. screenwriter.
Rassam, Jean-Pierre, film producer.
Favrod, Charles-Henri, 1927- film producer.
Almendros, Nestor, director of photography.
Casabianca, Denise de, editor of moving image work.
Amin, Idi, 1925-2003, on-screen participant.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

Notes:

Dolby digital mono ; wide screen (1.37:1 aspect ratio). Originally produced as a motion picture in 1974. Wide screen (1.37:1). Special features: Video interview with Barbet Schroeder; timeline of Ugandan history; documentation of Idi Amin's requested cuts from the film.

Summary:

A dark documentary of the self-styled dictator of Uganda providing a disturbing portrait of one of the 20th century's most notorious figures.

Series:

Criterion collection ; 153.

ISBN:

1681433885
9781681433882

UPC:

715515207515

Locations:

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)