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Kevin Macdonald · 2006 · exile

Kevin Macdonald's 2006 film. A young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan, leaves home for adventure in 1970s Uganda and, by chance, becomes the personal physician and confidant of the dictator Idi Amin. Seduced by power and then trapped by the regime's growing terror, Garrigan must find a way out as the country descends into brutality - a desperate flight ending at Entebbe airport.

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    Scotland

    The comfortable Scottish home the restless young Dr. Garrigan leaves on a whim, spinning a globe and setting off for Uganda in search of adventure and purpose.

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    Kampala

    The Ugandan capital where Garrigan falls into the orbit of the charismatic, terrifying Idi Amin, becoming his personal doctor and adviser as the dictatorship turns murderous around him.

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    Entebbe

    The airport on Lake Victoria where, amid the 1976 hijacking crisis, the disillusioned and hunted Garrigan makes his desperate escape from the regime he served.

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