Escape from Pretoria

2020 · 102 min · EN · PG-13 · 7.2 (1,556 votes)

Dir. Francis Annan · Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Webber, Ian Hart, Mark Leonard Winter, Nathan Page, Grant Piro · Music David Hirschfelder

“Survival is key”

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South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison.

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This is a taut, gritty experience, steeped in the oppressive atmosphere of apartheid-era South Africa. It's a propulsive, nerve-wracking journey of defiance and ingenuity, where every whispered plan and calculated risk feels acutely urgent. The mood is one of relentless tension, punctuated by moments of desperate hope.

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