The last king of Scotland [videorecording] / Fox Searchlight Pictures, DNA Films and FilmFour present in association with the UK Film Council and Scottish Screen a Cowboy Films/Slate Films production ; produced by Lisa Bryer, Andrea Calderwood, Charles Steel ; screenplay by Peter Morgan and Jeremy Brock ; directed by Kevin Macdonald.
Special features: 7 deleted scenes with commentary by Kevin MacDonald; exclusive documentary Capturing Idi Amin; Forest Whitaker Idi Amin featurette; Fox Movie Changgel presents Casting session The last king of Scotland. Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson, Simon McBurney. Based on the novel by Giles Foden.
Summary:
Chronicles Idi Amin's rise and fall. Amin's despotic reign of terror is viewed through the eyes of Nicholas Garrigan, a Scottish doctor who arrives in Uganda in the early 1970s to serve as Amin's personal physician. His perspective as an outsider causes him to be initially impressed by Amin's calculated rise to power and he grows increasingly monstrous. A pointed examination of how independent Uganda (a British colony until 1962) became a breeding ground for Amin's genocidal tyranny. Amin is both seductive and horribly destructive. Garrigan grows increasingly prone to exploitation.
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