Catch a Fire (2006)

Directed by

Phillip Noyce

Genre

drama film, biographical film, historical film, political thriller film

Country

South Africa, United Kingdom, France, United States

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 146 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A family man is falsely accused of sabotage by apartheid police. He is tortured and forced to join the anti-apartheid underground.

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What happens

Catch a Fire is a 2006 biographical thriller film about activists against apartheid in South Africa. The film was directed by Phillip Noyce and written by Shawn Slovo. Slovo's father, Joe Slovo, and mother Ruth First, leaders of the South African Communist Party and activists in the Anti-Apartheid Movement, appear as characters in the film, while her sister, Robyn Slovo, is one of the film's producers and also plays their mother Ruth First. Catch a Fire was filmed on location in South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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