BARBET SCHROEDER (Director): He was like a superstar on the screen. But in the early 1970s, he was just another ambitious young filmmaker looking for an irresistible subject. TURNER: Barbet Schroeder conquered Hollywood in the 1990s, directing movies like Barfly, Single White Female and Reversal of Fortune. He even played the accordion for its soundtrack. TURNER: The film's remarkable for two reasons: because Schroeder made it at the height of Amin's reign of terror, and because the dictator willingly appeared in nearly every frame. I am to work digging, and some money I keep it, and I pay my school fees and I study through hardship. And when I became bigger, my father has no money. President AMIN: I come from very poor family. The documentary, now available on DVD from the Criterion Collection, shows Amin in all his moods - from gun-toting egotist to this disarming charmer, recounting his humble roots. It's the man himself in General Idi Amin Dada, French filmmaker Barbet Schroeder's remarkable 1974 portrait. TURNER: This isn't Forest Whitaker's version of Amin.
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(Soundbite of movie "General Idi Amin Dada") He levels his rifle at the paper silhouette of a man and coolly pulls the trigger. Below it stands Idi Amin wearing his signature fatigues, black beret and giant gold watch. So at the height of his regime he granted unusual access to his life.ĬORY TURNER: A sign hangs from a corrugated tin roof.
He authorized no biographies and trusted no one to tell his story, no one except himself. Amin ruled Uganda with an iron fist from 1971 to 1979. FORREST WHITAKER (Actor) (as Idi Amin): (Unintelligible) Idi Amin Dada, and I want to promise you this will be a government of action, not of words.ĬHIDEYA: The film is historical fiction with the emphasis on fiction. (Soundbite of movie "The Last King of Scotland") In the new film The Last King of Scotland, Forrest Whitaker plays Ugandan dictator Idi Amin as a force of nature who sees his power with good intentions.
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