The last king of Scotland., 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, Widescreen
Type
Label
The last king of Scotland., 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, Widescreen
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
MPAA rating: R; for some strong violence and gruesome images, sexual content and language
Main title
The last king of Scotland.
Oclc number
81984531
Responsibility statement
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
Runtime
123
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
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
resource.version
Widescreen
Classification
Contributor
- Calderwood, Andrea
- Macdonald, Kevin, 1967-
- Cowboy Films
- FilmFour (Firm)
- Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Ltd
- Whitaker, Forest
- Foden, Giles, 1967-
- Anderson, Gillian, 1968-
- DNA Films
- Brock, Jeremy, 1959-
- Scottish Screen (Organization)
- McAvoy, James, 1979-
- Bryer, Lisa
- Steel, Charles
- Slate Films
- UK Film Council
- Washington, Kerry, 1977-
- Morgan, Peter, 1963-
- McBurney, Simon
- Fox Searchlight Pictures
Genre
Subject
- Uganda -- Politics and government -- Drama
- Physician and patient -- Uganda -- Drama
- Uganda -- History -- Drama
- Biographical films
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Feature films
- Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.)
- Amin, Idi, 1925-2003 -- Drama
- Historical films
- Dictators -- Uganda -- Drama
- Uganda -- Drama
- Uganda -- Politics and government -- 1971-1979 -- Drama
- Videodiscs
Content
Actor
Director
Is Based On
resource.screenwriter
Mapped to
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Contributor20
- Calderwood, Andrea
- Macdonald, Kevin, 1967-
- Cowboy Films
- FilmFour (Firm)
- Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Ltd
- Whitaker, Forest
- Foden, Giles, 1967-
- Anderson, Gillian, 1968-
- DNA Films
- Brock, Jeremy, 1959-
- Scottish Screen (Organization)
- McAvoy, James, 1979-
- Bryer, Lisa
- Steel, Charles
- Slate Films
- UK Film Council
- Washington, Kerry, 1977-
- Morgan, Peter, 1963-
- McBurney, Simon
- Fox Searchlight Pictures
- Genre5
- Subject13
- Uganda -- Politics and government -- Drama
- Physician and patient -- Uganda -- Drama
- Uganda -- History -- Drama
- Biographical films
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Feature films
- Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.)
- Amin, Idi, 1925-2003 -- Drama
- Historical films
- Dictators -- Uganda -- Drama
- Uganda -- Drama
- Uganda -- Politics and government -- 1971-1979 -- Drama
- Videodiscs
- Content1
- Actor5
- Director1
- Is Based On1
- Producer3
- resource.screenwriter2
- Mapped to1