Director: Amma Asante
A United Kingdom (2016 USA/UK/Czech Republic) cert 12A – Babes in Arms screening
Director: Amma Asante
Stars: David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike, Jack Davenport, Nicholas Lyndhurst
Whilst studying law in London shortly after the Second World War, Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana falls in love with English insurance clerk, Ruth Williams. They get married and propose returning in triumph to his homeland, where he will become the hereditary ruler of his people.
But their marriage is fiercely opposed by both their families, even threatening to cause a rift between British and South African governments as a result of the latter’s recently established apartheid policy.
Seretse and Ruth must defy them all to return to Botswana. Based on true events previously documented in a book and on TV, this well-crafted, inspiring story of love is driven by absorbing performances from Oyelowo and Pike.