Drama · History
A United Kingdom
The true story of a love that shook an empire
The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments. Seretse and Ruth defied family, Apartheid and empire - their love triumphed over every obstacle flung in their path and in so doing they transformed their nation and inspired the world.
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Top Cast
David Oyelowo
Seretse Khama
Rosamund Pike
Ruth Williams-Khama
Tom Felton
Rufus Lancaster
Jack Davenport
Sir Alistair Canning
Terry Pheto
Naledi Khama
Laura Carmichael
Muriel Williams
Jessica Oyelowo
Lady Lilly Canning
Vusi Kunene
Tshekedi Khama
Directed by
Amma Asante
Production
Pathé
Yoruba Saxon
Canal+
Ciné+
BBC Film
Ingenious Media
BFIReviews
Reno
8/107/13/2017
**The story of two kingdoms.** It got the mixed responses from all the quarters, but I had a little doubt that did I watched the same film! Because it was much better than what I have had heard from them. It's a biographical romance- drama from the director of 'Belle'. And like the inspiring life stories of Gandhi, Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr. et cetera, this one falls in the same line. All of their life events set in different kind of geopolitical scenario, so do this man's. But it was like differences in the family, which led to geopolitics. Anyway, the history book says, all the great struggles began with some game changing incidents like in this story. Seretse Khama, a king to be to a Southern African nation, now known as Botswana. His/this story was not filled with any violen
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