Tyrant's Savage Story Brought to the Screen Film Tells Tale of Ugandan Despot Idi Amin and His Scots Doctor
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THE savage tale of Idi Amin, the tyrannical and mercurial Ugandan dictator, wound up its final chapter in the unlikely setting of Glasgow Royal Infirmary yesterday.
The Victorian hospital was the scene of the final day of filming for The Last King of Scotland, a project based on Giles Foden's novel describing the horror of Amin's 1970s regime and its murder of 500,000 Ugandans.See the full content of this document
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Tyrant's Savage Story Brought to the Screen Film Tells Tale of Ugandan Despot Idi Amin and His Scots Doctor
The film, financed by Film Four and directed by Glaswegian Kevin MacDonald, who won an Oscar for the documentary One Day in September, is based on the 1998 Whitbread Prize-winning novel.
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