Catch a Fire
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 2006-10-27
Runtime: 101 mins
Director: Phillip Noyce
Spoken language: English, Afrikaans, isiZulu
Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller
Original title: Catch a Fire
Production Companies: Working Title Films, Mirage Enterprises, StudioCanal
Production Countries: France, United Kingdom, United States of America
Cast
Tim Robbins
Derek Luke
Bonnie Mbuli
Mncedisi Shabangu
Tumisho Masha
Sithembiso Khumalo
Terry Pheto
Michele Burgers
Mpho Lovinga
Jay Anstey
Charlotte Savage
Nomhlé Nkyonyeni
Susan Danford
Michael Mabizela
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