Title:
The last king of Scotland
Uniform Title:
Last king of Scotland (Motion picture)
Publication Information:
Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2007.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Based on the novel by Giles Foden.
Special features: 7 deleted scenes with optional commentary by Kevin MacDonald; exclusive documentary Capturing Idi Amin; Forest Whitaker Idi Amin featurette;
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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.
System Details:
DVD; REGION 1; WIDESCREEN PRESENTATION.
Language Note:
CLOSED-CAPTIONED; DIALOGUE IN ENGLISH (5.1 DOLBY SURROUND) OR SPANISH (DOLBY SURROUND) WITH OPTIONAL SUBTITLES IN ENGLISH, FRENCH OR SPANISH.
