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IMDb rating 6.9
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Critic rating 6.6

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Critic Christy Lemire
rated 5

...well made and well-intentioned.

Read full review at Roger Ebert
Critic Peter Bradshaw
rated 8

With terrific warmth and idealism – and irresistible storytelling relish – director Amma Asante gives us a romantic true story from our dowdy postwar past.

Read full review at The Guardian
Critic The Philadelphia Inquirer Staf
rated 9

Director Amma Asante, who is fresh off her critical success with Belle, has an enormous amount of material here. She does a first-rate job balancing the film’s romantic and political elements.

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Critic Helen O'Hara
rated 8

...a story that deserves to be told.

Read full review at Empire
Critic Johan Croneman
rated 6

Det är rakt igenom välspelat…

Read full review at Dagens Nyheter
Critic Uffe Stormgaard
rated 7

...en velment og smukt fremstillet beretning om kampen for menneskerettigheder og demokrati i et fattigt/fattigt undertrykt land.

Read full review at Cinemazone
Critic Ditte Fiil Ravn
rated 5

...dygtige Rosamund Pike og David Oyelowo [evner] at uddybe figurernes kemi, som filmen skrider frem...

Read full review at Soundvenue
Critic Jonathan Enochsson
rated 6

…ett varmt drama om två människors omöjliga kärlek i en tid av rasism och segregation…

Read full review at Moviezine

Cast & Crew

Amma Asante
Director
Anton Lesser
As Prime Minister Attlee
Rosamund Pike
As Ruth Williams-Khama
David Oyelowo
As Seretse Khama
Jack Davenport
As Sir Alistair Canning
Nicholas Rowe
As Fenner Brockway
Anastasia Hille
As Dot Williams

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A United Kingdom is a movie based on a true story that took place in the 1940s when Seretse Khama fell in love with Ruth Williams in London. Seretse was a prince from Bechuanaland (now known as Botswana), while Ruth was a young Englishwoman. This love story was not acceptable to their families or the British and South African governments, which were against their relationship due to apartheid laws and segregation. Despite many obstacles thrown in their path, Seretse and Ruth were determined to be together and fought against all odds to make their love triumphant.heid term of five years but was instead made permanent by Winston Churchill. However, powerful people in London as well as the US government supported Khama’s case, enabling him to return to Bechuanaland and eventually negotiate its independence from Britain. A postscript reveals that Khama was elected as the first president of present-day Botswana, whose love story inspired many across the world.

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