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A Marriage of Inconvenience (1990)

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Genre
documentary film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h
Elsewhere
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How it feels

This documentary tells the story of Seretse Khama, a politician who helped Botswana gain independence, and his marriage to a white woman named Ruth Williams. The marriage caused controversy in apartheid-era South Africa.

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What happens

A Marriage of Inconvenience est un téléfilm documentaire britannique réalisé par Mike Dutfield pour TVS Television et diffusé en 1990. Il est consacré à la vie de l'homme politique botswanais Seretse Khama, principal acteur de l'indépendance de ce pays, et à son mariage avec une femme blanche, Ruth Williams Khama, qui provoque un tollé dans l'Afrique du Sud de l'apartheid. C'est l'un des premiers et rares documentaires non animaliers réalisés au Botswana. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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