General Idi Amin Dada
A self portrait.
A chilling documentary portrait of a brutal dictator presenting himself to the camera, raising unsettling questions about power, propaganda, and the nature of documentary truth.
Filmmaker Barbet Schroeder shows the Ugandan dictator meeting his Cabinet, reviewing his troops, explaining his ideology.
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