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Catch a Fire (2006)
Director: Phillip Noyce
Cast: Tim Robbins, Derek Luke, Bonnie Mbuli, Mncedisi Shabangu
6.7
75%Runtime101 min
Rating12
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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.
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Catch a Fire (2006) is a powerful and gripping true story directed by Phillip Noyce, featuring standout performances by Tim Robbins and Derek Luke. The film offers a nuanced exploration of apartheid-era South Africa, tracing the radicalization of a timid foreman into a passionate anti-apartheid activist through the lens of injustice and state-sanctioned violence.
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Catch a Fire is a 2006 biographical thriller film about activists against apartheid in South Africa. The film was directed by Phillip Noyce and written by Shawn Slovo. Slovo's father, Joe Slovo, and mother Ruth First, leaders of the South African Communist Party and activists in the Anti-Apartheid Movement, appear as characters in the film, while her sister, Robyn Slovo, is one of the film's producers and also plays their mother Ruth First. Catch a Fire was filmed on location in South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique.
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