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Michael Goldsmith, Werner Herzog, Augustine Assemat, David Dacko, Francis Szpiner

Idi Amin Dada was not the only leader of a newly independent African nation who was accused (on the basis of reliable evidence) of bizarre practices. The former French colony known as the Central Afri... read more read more...can Republic was governed from 1966 to 1977 by a man known as Jean Bedel Bokassa. After he was deposed, he was accused of cannibalism. This documentary by Werner Herzog explores the years of his increasingly strange and paranoid rule of that country, and features an interview with a western journalist who was imprisoned by Bokassa as a result of a garbled telex. Bokassa was ousted shortly after he staged an elaborate, widely publicized and very expensive coronation for himself as the "Emperor" of the Republic, during a state visit to another African country. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 31 min.

Directed by: Werner Herzog

Release Date: November 28, 1990

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