A United Kingdom
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| Directed by | Amma Asante |
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| Screenplay by | Guy Hibbert |
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Colour Bar by Susan Williams |
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| Music by | Patrick Doyle |
| Cinematography | Sam McCurdy |
| Edited by | Jonathan Amos |
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111 minutes |
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| Language | English |
| Box office | $5.555.711 |
A United Kingdom is a Britishbiographical romantic drama film directed by Amma Asante and starring David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike. The screenplay, by Guy Hibbert, is based on the true-life romance between Sir Seretse Khama and his wife Ruth Williams Khama.
It was screened at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, and was the opening film at the 60th London Film Festival, the second year in a row that a British film featured.
The film is based on a true story. Seretse Khama (David Oyelowo) is the Prince of Bechuanaland (now Botswana). In 1948 he meets and falls in love with London office worker Ruth Williams (Rosamund Pike). But their interracial relationship is not approved of by either of their families, nor by the British and South African governments. Seretse and Ruth must defy family, apartheid and the British empire to return from an imposed exile to their African kingdom, and assume power after independence.
Pike joined the cast in May 2015, with Asante joining shortly afterwards.
In September 2015 Asante revealed that shooting would be split between Botswana and London, and that it would begin in October in preparation for a 2016 release coinciding with the 50th anniversary of independence in Botswana.
In October 2015 actors Jack Davenport and Tom Felton joined the cast.
In November 2015 some filming took place around Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens including Imperial College Union.
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