The last king of Scotland

Resource Information

The work The last king of Scotland represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Hamilton North Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The last king of Scotland

Statement of responsibility

DNA Films ; Fox Searchlight Pictures ; FilmFour ; Cowboy Films ; Scottish Screen ; Slate Films ; Tatfilm ; UK Film Council ; produced by Lisa Bryer, Andrea Calderwood, Christine Ruppert, Charles Steel ; written by Jeremy Brock, Peter Morgan ; directed by Kevin Macdonald

Contributor

• Cowboy Films
• DNA Films
• FilmFour (Firm)
• Fox Searchlight Pictures
• Scottish Screen (Organization)
• Slate Films
• Tatfilm (Firm)
• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
• UK Film Council
• Anderson, Gillian, 1968-
• Ashton, David, 1941-
• Brock, Jeremy, 1959-
• Bryer, Lisa
• Calderwood, Andrea
• Kotz, Adam, 1962-
• Macdonald, Kevin, 1967-
• McAvoy, James, 1979-
• McBurney, Simon
• Morgan, Peter, 1963-
• Mukiibi, Abby
• Oyelowo, David
• Rafferty, Barbara
• Ruppert, Christine
• Steel, Charles
• Washington, Kerry, 1977-
• Whitaker, Forest

Subject

• Amin, Idi, 1925-2003 -- Drama
• Biographical -- Feature
• Biographical films
• Biographical films
• DVD-Video discs
• Despotism -- Uganda -- Drama
• Dictators -- Uganda -- Drama
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Genocide -- Uganda -- Drama
• Historical -- Feature
• Historical films
• Historical films
• Physician and patient -- Uganda -- Drama
• Suspense films
• Thriller -- Feature
• Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.)
• Uganda -- Drama
• Uganda -- History -- Drama
• Uganda -- Politics and government -- Drama
• Video recordings
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Genre

• Biographical
• Biographical films
• DVD-Video discs
• trueDrama
• Feature films
• Historical
• Historical films
• Suspense films
• Thriller
• Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.)
• Video recordings
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

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 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

Awards note

Golden Globes (USA), 2007: Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Pictures - Drama (Forest Whitaker)

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

Closed-captioned; dialogue in English (5.1 Dolby Surround) or Spanish (Dolby Surround) with optional subtitles in English, French or Spanish

LC call number

PN1995.9.S87

LC item number

L378 2007

PerformerNote

Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson, Simon McBurney, David Oyelowo, Abby Mukiibi, Adam Kotz, Barbara Rafferty, David Ashton

Runtime

123

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action