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Catch a Fire (2006)

Catch a Fire (2006)

Action Drama Thriller

The spark that ignites us, unites us.

Release Date: 2006, October 27
Directors: Phillip Noyce
Countries: France, United Kingdom, United States of America
Production: Working Title Films, Mirage Enterprises, StudioCanal
Cast: Susan Danford, Robert Hobbs, Tim Robbins, Derek Luke, Marius Weyers, Bonnie Mbuli, Eduan van Jaarsveldt, Tumisho Masha, Mncedisi Shabangu, Terry Pheto, Nomhlé Nkyonyeni, Nomhle Nkonyeni

Overview:

The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest synthetic fuel plant in the world. Patrick is wrongly accused, imprisoned and tortured for an attempt to bomb the plant, with the injustice transforming the apolitical worker into a radicalised insurgent, who then carries out his own successful sabotage mission.

Keywords:

resistance police brutality right and justice south africa apartheid anc (african national congress)