The Last King of Scotland

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2006

Running time: 123 mins

The Last King of Scotland

Director : Kevin Macdonald

Setting: Uganda

synopsis extract: Based on reality a fictional story of a young Scottish doctor who becomes IdiAmin's personal physician and fails to see what is going on. ...

Cast:

James McAvoy Dr Nicholas
Gillian Anderson Sarah Merrit - the woman
Forest Whitaker Idi Amin

Aspect Ratio: 2.35 (anamorphic)

Colour: Colour

Sound: Stereo

Camera: 16mm

Tech Notes: shot on 16mm and 35mm

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The 2000s (the noughties)

Synopsis

Based on reality a fictional story of a young Scottish doctor who becomes IdiAmin's personal physician and fails to see what is going on. Not quite true fiction although many of the events did happen the doctor is invented.

He helps Amin with a minor injury when he has a minor car crash on his victory tour of the country at the village where the doctor is working. Amin then recruits him as his personal physician and he accompanies and observes Amin as the regime spirals into madness.

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