Catch a Fire
Visit website6.2/10 • 130
2006-10-27 • 1h 41m
The spark that ignites us, unites us.
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.
- Directors
- Phillip Noyce
- Editors
- Jill Bilcock
Catch a Fire
Visit website2006-10-27 • 1h 41m
6.2/10 • 130
The spark that ignites us, unites us.
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.
- Directors
- Phillip Noyce
- Editors
- Jill Bilcock
Top Billed Cast
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Tim Robbins
Nic Vos
Derek Luke
Patrick Chamusso
Bonnie Mbuli
Precious Chamusso
Mncedisi Shabangu
Zuko September
Tumisho Masha
Obadi
Sithembiso Khumalo
Sixpence
Terry Pheto
Miriam
Michele Burgers
Anna Vos
Mpho Lovinga
Johnny Piliso
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- Status
- Released
- Original Language
- English
- Budget
- $14,000,000.00
- Revenue
- $5,700,000.00
- Keywords
- police brutalityright and justiceresistancesouth africaapartheidanc (african national congress)