Word: dada
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...POINT OF documentary cinema at its best is to convey things as they really are, events as they really occurred, in all their beauty, in all their terror, in all their pathos. In this sense, Idi Amin Dada is documentary at its worst, a combination of cheap shots, superficial political commentary, and cultural racism, which results in a meaningless comic portrait of a genocidal dictator. A Swiss director, Barbet Schroeder, took a crew to Uganda in 1974, after having received express permission to do a film portrait of the Ugandan President, who had assumed power in a coup d'etat...
Beyond the occasional slip into the D.W. Griffith syndrome, and far more serious, is the pervasive cultural racism in Idi Amin Dada. Among the moments that are apparently meant to be particularly hilarious are shots of Amin in native dress, participating in what seem to be Ugandan dances and ceremonies. These scenes have no purpose in the film whatsoever, unless Schroeder assumes that his audience will find practices and rites belonging to an alien culture inherently amusing. One is forced to wonder how a Ugandan audience would receive a film showing President Ford donning a football helmet and marching with...
Some notables sent their regrets. Cuba's Fidel Castro said he was busy, and so did North Korea's Kim II Sung and Uganda's Idi Amin ("Big Daddy") Dada. Among those who did gather in Colombo: Viet Nam's ascetic Premier Pham Van Dong, Libya's mercurial Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, India's stately Indira Gandhi, Cyprus' black-bearded Archbishop Makarios...
After days of dark hints that he might launch an attack across his border with Kenya, Uganda's dictator Idi Amin Dada suddenly announced that he would not invade "one inch" of his neighbor's territory. For once there was reason to believe him. With upwards of 300 Uganda-bound fuel trucks stopped in Kenya, Amin's country was rapidly running out of gas. Streets in Kampala and towns around the country emptied of auto traffic as the regime slapped a ban on driving by private motorists; Amin fought back the only way he could -by cutting...
...another heated up in East Africa between Uganda and neighboring Kenya. Although the two sides continued to trade insults rather than shots, and nationals of both countries moved freely across the 340-mile frontier, no one could rule out the possibility that Uganda's savage dictator, Idi Amin Dada, might decide to avenge his embarrassment at Entebbe by attacking Kenya...