The last king of Scotland

The Resource The last king of Scotland
Label
The last king of Scotland
Statement of responsibility
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
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  • eng
  • spa
  • eng
  • fre
  • spa
  • eng
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 as 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
Awards note
Golden Globes (USA), 2007: Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama (Forest Whitaker), Academy Award: Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Whitaker), 2007
Cataloging source
TEFMT
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Director of photography, Anthony Dod Mantle ; editor, Justine Wright ; music, Alex Heffes ; costume designer, Michael O'Connor ; production designer, Michael Carlin ; special effects supervisor, Sebastian Bulst ; visual effects supervisors, John Lockwood, Steve Street
Dewey number
791.43/72
Intended audience
MPAA rating: R; for some strong violence and gruesome images, sexual content and language
Language note
In English or dubbed in Spanish; subtitles in English, Spanish and French; closed-captioned
PerformerNote
Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson, Simon McBurney
Runtime
123
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
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