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This documentary could have been much more interesting if that background music did not exist. Instead, it was constant, loud to the point of covering the voices of the commentators. And it was cacophonic, totally unrelated to the events shown. Furthermore, most reels kept being shown again and again, with different comments attached to them. Very disapointing, unfortunately.

I was looking for a serious documentary about his youth, education, ascension to power, and more interactions between him and Germany. Also, historically, I am not sure that the victory over Ethiopia was long lasting, and actually the Italians were defeated by the Ethiopians. While the Europeans colonized 90% of Africa, Ethiopia was never colonized.

All in all, this documentary lacked what makes a documentary an interesting one to watch. Except when it showed the murdered body of the dictator.

It's really sad that so many people involved in the production of this movie had to be associated with it. I hardly ever rate any movie of a rate of 3 out of 10, but this movie is one of bad quality, unpleasant score, ridiculous plot, lack of any suspense, and in general very boring, I made an effort to stay with it till the end, but it was a hopeless exercise. If Godot wasn't featured in this movie, I would have quit earlier, but I still enjoy her as an actor. The plot is the worst part of it, lifeless, meaningless, drawing no sympathy or empathy from the audience, except impatience to have it over with.

I like art movies, and I see at least 2 movies a day. I never left a movie theater, before a movie ends. After an hour and a ½ , i did, for the first time in my life. The songs were so repetitive, with the same sentences repeated 10 times, in almost each song. The movie was long. The comedy elements were not funny at all, I was sitting and watching, saying to myself, how is this possible, to be so bad, so boring, so long, so detached from any emotion, so ui-involved? Yes, some scenes had visual color and beauty and some imagination built into the decor, but is this enough to keep me on my seat? There was fakeness in the stories, i was just so disappointed. I wasn't the only one leaving the theater too. Other women were, before me. I did not ask for a refund, I tried to be generous to all the people who put that movie together. But they owe me some popcorn..