5.8
“The true story of a love that shook an empire”
A United Kingdom (2016)
November 25, 20161h 51mEN
6.7
537 votes
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.
Director
Amma AsanteWriters
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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$14.0M
Revenue
$13.8M
Production Companies
PathéYoruba SaxonHarbinger PicturesPerfect WeekendFilm UnitedCanal+
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Reno
8.0**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…
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