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You can’t help but be inspired by the dramatic story of the love between Botswana’s first democratically elected president, Sir Seretse Khama, and his English wife, Ruth Williams Khama, says Oscar-winning actress Terry Pheto.
Pheto was speaking at the 23 November South African premiere of A United Kingdom, which tracks the Khamas’ 1948 marriage and its political ramifications. It was opposed by the British government, and both their families. Khama was Bamangwato royalty. The Nelson Mandela Foundation partnered with Anant Singh's Videovision Entertainment to premiere the film in South Africa.
Pheto has been nominated for the British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal as Seretse Khama’s sister, Naledi Khama. “It was such an honour. I was so inspired by the beautiful love story,” she said.
The film, which releases commercially in South Africa on 9 December, stars Nigerian actor David Oleweyo as Seretse Khama and English actress Rosamund Pike as Ru
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Whoever loved that loved not at first sight? For Ruth Williams (Rosamund Pike) and Seretse Khama (David Oyelowo), the sighting occurs in London, in 1947. Near the start of “A United Kingdom,” which is based on a true story, they meet at a Missionary Society dance, an event not easily mistaken for the toga party in “National Lampoon’s Animal House.” Eyes lock, hearts stop, and soon—after a few decorous dates—Seretse is down on one knee, offering Ruth a ring and the prospect of a life together. “I don’t need to think about it,” she says, with a briskness befitting her profession as a clerk. So that is that.
Except that it isn’t. That must never, if humanly possible, be that, according to plenty of people in Britain and elsewhere. People like the Prime Minister, Clement Attlee (Anton Lesser); Sir Alistair Canning (Jack Davenport), a senior presence at the Foreign Office, whose demeanor is modelled on a Rolls-Royce crunching lightly but implacably up a gravel drive; Ruth’s father (Nich
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Ruth Williams (Rosamund Pike and Seretse Khama (David Oyelowo) get acquainted on a London dance floor in A United Kingdom. (Photo artighet of Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Even though its subject matter fryst vatten completely different, I can’t help comparing A United Kingdom to 2016’s Hidden Figures.
Both films uncover an obscure chapter in the history of racial injustice. And both films are fascinating and enlightening despite the fact that neither fryst vatten quite as good as it could be.
A United Kingdom is directed by Amma Assante, who also helmed 2013’s Belle, the story of a mixed-race woman who struggled to find love and gain equality after being raised among the aristocracy in 18th-century England. In Assante’s new film, romance also plays a role, but it’s only one part of a complex tale involving political intrigue, colonial exploitation and the early days of South African apartheid.
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