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    The Last King of Scotland

    R2007 · Drama · 2h 1m

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  1. The Last King of Scotland is a 2006 historical drama film directed by Kevin Macdonald from a screenplay by Peter Morgan and Jeremy Brock. Based on Giles Foden's 1998 novel, its plot depicts the dictatorship of Ugandan President Idi Amin through the perspective of Nicholas Garrigan, a fictional Scottish doctor.

  2. Malcolm II was the last king of the House of Alpin; in his reign, he successfully crushed all opposition to him and, having no sons, was able to pass the crown to his daughter's son, Duncan I, who inaugurated the House of Dunkeld.

  3. Jan 19, 2007 · The Last King of Scotland: Directed by Kevin Macdonald. With Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson. Based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s.

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    • Biography, Drama, History
    • Kevin Macdonald
    • 2007-01-19
  4. The Last King of Scotland is a novel by journalist Giles Foden, published by Faber and Faber in 1998. Focusing on the rise of Ugandan President Idi Amin and his reign as dictator from 1971 to 1979, the novel, which interweaves fiction and historical fact, is written as the memoir of a fictional Scottish doctor in Amin's employ.

    • Giles Foden
    • Novel
    • 1998
    • 1998
  5. May 27, 2020 · Keystone/Getty Images. By A. C. Grimes / May 27, 2020 4:19 pm EST. Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was a man of many titles and epithets. According to ThoughtCo, people called him the "Butcher of Uganda." When Amin died in 2003, the BBC dubbed him "the buffoon tyrant" in a scathing obituary.

  6. Mar 1, 2007 · It was about Idi Amin, the brutal former president of Uganda--brilliantly performed by Forest Whitaker (who just got an Oscar for the role)--and his relationship with a young Scottish doctor,...

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  7. Summaries. Based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin 's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s. After graduating from the University of Edinburgh, Scottish physician Nicholas Garrigan flies to Uganda to work at a missionary clinic.

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