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Watch the mov­ing first trail­er for A Unit­ed Kingdom

25 Aug 2016

Words by David Jenkins

Amma Asante’s Apartheid era peri­od dra­ma is set to open the 60th BFI Lon­don Film Festival.

Direct­ed by Amma Asante (Belle) and writ­ten by Guy Hib­bert (Eye in the Sky), A Unit­ed King­dom tells the true sto­ry of the con­tentious romance between Seretse Khama, King of Bechua­na­land (mod­ern Botswana), and a Lon­don office work­er named Ruth Williams.

Sel­ma star David Oyelowo and Gone Girl Rosamund Pike play the cou­ple whose mar­riage in 1948 caused ten­sion between the British and South African gov­ern­ments, not to men­tion their fam­i­lies (“Father will hate him; he’s clev­er­er than him and he’s black”), around the advent of Apartheid. The film will pre­miere at the 60th BFI Lon­don Film Fes­ti­val, which kicks off on 5 Octo­ber. Before then, check out the trail­er and let us know your thoughts @LWLies.

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