Sunday, January 25, 2015

January 25 - The Last King of Scotland

Today’s movie is a drama with a scene that happens on January 25. Watch it tonight and enjoy.

THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND   

On January 25, 1971 [03:11 to 07:21] Dr. Garrigan arrives in Uganda on the day of Idi Amin’s coup to work in a missionary clinic. Garrigan later meets Amin and becomes his personal physician. Garrigan becomes an advisor to Amin, but closes his eyes to the brutality of Amin’s regieme. Garrigan has an affair with one of Amin’s wives,  Kay and Amin replaces Garrigans British passport wih a Ugandan one.  Garrigan refuses the price of British Foreign Office aid to get out of the country – kill Amin.  Kay becomes pregnant with Garrigan’s child, but after he can’t meet her for an abortion, she is arrested and killed. When Palestinians fly a hijacked Air France plane into Entebbe, Garrigan tries to kill Amin, but the plot is discovered and he is tortured. A Ugandan collegue enables Garrigan to escape when the non-Israeli passengers are released, at the cost of his own life.

The Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not Forget by Andrew Rice (Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2009) at page 89 gives the date of the coup

Director - Kevin MacDonald

Producers - Charles Steel, Lisa Bryer and Andrea Calderwood

Screenplay - Peter Morgan and Jeremy Brock

Awards - The film won the Best Actor Oscar(Whitaker)

Released – September 27, 2006

Runtime – 2 hours 3 minutes

Starring -  

Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin
James McAvoy as Nicholas Garrigan
Kerry Washington as Kay Amin
Gillian Anderson as Sarah Merrit
Simon McBurney as Stone
David Oyelowo as Dr. Junju

Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015










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