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General Idi Amin Dada : autoportrait / Janus Films ; un film de Barbet Schroeder ; [produced by] Jean-Pierre Rassam [and] Charles-Henri Favrod ; executive producer Jean-François Chauvel ; a production of Le Figaro, Mara Films, TV Rencontre.

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Rassam, Jean-Pierre, producer.
Favrod, Charles-Henri, 1927- producer.
Schroeder, Barbet, director, author.
Mara Films (Firm), producer.
Home Vision (Firm), distributor.
Janus Films, distributor.
TV Recontre (Firm)
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Series:
Criterion collection ; 153.
Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.)
The Criterion collection ; 153
The Classic collection
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Amin, Idi, 1925-2003.
Amin, Idi.
Uganda--History--1971-1979.
Uganda.
History.
Genre:
Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Biographical films.
Documentary films.
Video recordings.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
polychrome
Edition:
Director approved special edition.
Other Title:
Title on container: Barbet Schroeder's General Idi Amin Dada : a self portrait
Idi Amin Dada : a self portrait
Place of Publication:
[Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2002]
Language Note:
In English only.
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
System Details:
DVD; Dolby digital mono.
digital
optical
mono
Dolby
video file
DVD video
Summary:
A darkly comic documentary of the self-styled dictator of Uganda providing a disturbing portrait of one of the 20th century's most notorious figures.
Credits:
Caméra, Nestor Almendros; montage, Denise de Casabianca; musique, Idi Amin Dada.
Notes:
Special features: video interview with Barbet Schroeder; timeline of Ugandan history; documentation of Idi Amin's requested cuts to the film.
Originally released in France as an English language film, with French subtitles.
Original theatrical aspect ratio.
Edition statement from label on container.
Videodisc release of the documentary motion picture produced in 1974.
ISBN:
0780025075
OCLC:
49870691
Publisher Number:
037429166529
IDI020 The Criterion Collection

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