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Catch a Fire
Film / 2006

Catch a Fire

Directed by Phillip Noyce
ActionDramaThriller

★ 6.3/10Audience rating

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.

The story

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.

Cast

Tim RobbinsNic Vos Derek LukePatrick Chamusso Bonnie MbuliPrecious Chamusso Mncedisi ShabanguZuko September Tumisho MashaObadi Sithembiso KhumaloSixpence Terry PhetoMiriam Michele BurgersAnna Vos Mpho LovingaJohnny Piliso Jay AnsteyKatie Vos Charlotte SavageMarie Vos Nomhlé NkyonyeniMama Dorothy
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Susan DanfordWhite Madam Michael MabizelaShaven Head Bomber Erno Van DykSecurity Branch Policeman Marius WeyersPolice Brigadier Eduan van JaarsveldtSpecial Branch Sergeant Robert HobbsSpecial Branch Lieutenant

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