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    Catch a Fire 2006 POSTER

    Catch a Fire

    2006

    English

    6.7

    4

    75%

    71%

    Action

    anc (african national congress)

    apartheid

    Biography

    Drama

    History

    police brutality

    resistance

    right and justice

    south africa

    Phillip Noyce Phillip Noyce Director Brandon Auret Brandon Auret as Army Commandant Tim Robbins Tim Robbins as Col. Nic Vos Marius Weyers Marius Weyers as Police Brigadier Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela as Self
    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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