Amin: The Rise and Fall (1981)
Rise and Fall of Idi Amin (original title)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Joseph Olita	...	Idi Amin
	Thomas Baptiste	...	Dr. Michael Oloya
	Leonard Trolley	...	Bob Astles
	Geoffrey Keen	...	British Ambassador
	Louis Mahoney	...	Freedom fighter Ofumbi
	André Maranne	...	French Ambassador
	Denis Hills	...	Himself
	Tony Sibbald	...	Canadian Ambassador Davis
	Norbert Okare	...	Kiwanuka
	Ka Vundla	...	Malyamungu
	Martin Okello	...	Amin Officer
	Nicky Giles	...	White Girl
	Ann Wanjuga	...	Mrs. Olaya
	Gordon Gardner	...	Israeli Ambassador
	Alf Joint	...	American Ambassador

Storyline

This biographical movie begins with a short blurb about Uganda, followed by the joyous scenes surrounding Amin's military takeover from Milton Obote. He goes about arresting and torturing the rebels. In his freezer he keeps the heads of his rivals and says: "It is a Kaqwa way. I talk to them". Amin then goes about having Asians expelled from Uganda saying: "Uganda is for Ugandas. There will be no more Shahs and Patels. Let them swim back." After the infamous 1976 Entebbe hostage situation where Israeli commandos make a daring rescue of their citizens who were taken into Uganda on a hijacked plane, Amin has Dora Bloch (the only hostage the Israelis couldn't liberate) killed. Amin then goes on to believing he is the 'Hitler of Africa' and promises that he will actually erect a statue in honour of his namesake "in the middle of Kampala". Amin becomes a rather childish and sick psychopath who mixes voodoo... Written by Sujit R. Varma  

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