The last king of Scotland
Title:
The last king of Scotland
Author:
MacDonald, Kevin.
ISBN:
6003805068873
Publication Information:
[United Kingdom] : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2007.
Physical Description:
1 DVD-video (117 min.) : widescreen, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Widescreen DVD for region 2.
Based on the novel by Giles Foden. Special features: Commentary by director Kevin Macdonald ; deleted scenes ; documentary: capturing Idi Amin ; Forest Whitaker "Idi Amin" featurette ; casting session ; theatrical traler. Academy Awards 2007: Best Actor (Forest Whitaker). Golden Globes (USA), 2007: Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Pictures - Drama (Forest Whitaker)
Abstract:
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. He gains Amin's trust and becomes his personal physician. Garrigan's perspective as an outsider causes him to be initially impressed by Amin's calculated rise to power. Amin is both charismatic and horribly destructive. Garrigan's dream life becomes a walking nightmare of betrayal and madness from which there is no escape.