A United Kingdom
The true story of a love that shook an empire
Overview
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.
- Budget
- $14,000,000
- Revenue
- $13,819,139
- Production
- Pathé, Yoruba Saxon, Harbinger Pictures, Perfect Weekend, Film United, Canal+, Ciné+, BBC Film, Ingenious Media, Fox Searchlight Pictures, BFI
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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
Nicholas Lyndhurst
George Williams
Arnold Oceng
Charles
Anastasia Hille
Dot Williams
Charlotte Hope
Olivia Lancaster
Theo Landey
Nash
Abena Ayivor
Ella Khama
Jack Lowden
Tony Benn
Zackary Momoh
Oluwu
Nicholas Rowe
Fenner Brockway
Billy Boyle
Reverend James Manners
Kevin Hand
Manager
Ray Burnet
Reverend Leonard Patterson
Crew
- Director
- Amma Asante
- Writers
- Guy Hibbert
- Cinematography
- Sam McCurdy
- Composer
- Patrick Doyle
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Reno
July 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 li…