Escape from Pretoria (2020)

Directed by

Francis Annan

Genre

thriller film

Country

Australia, United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 46m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 1,503 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1979, two white South African anti-apartheid activists are imprisoned in Pretoria Central Prison. They plan and carry out a daring escape by secretly crafting wooden keys to unlock the doors.

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What happens

Escape from Pretoria is a 2020 prison film co-written and directed by Francis Annan, based on the real-life prison escape by three political prisoners in South Africa in 1979, starring Daniel Radcliffe and Daniel Webber. It is based on the 2003 book Inside Out: Escape from Pretoria Prison by Tim Jenkin, one of the escapees. An international co-production between Australia and the United Kingdom, the film was shot in Adelaide, South Australia, in early 2019, both on location in the city and suburbs and in the Glenside studios of the South Australian Film Corporation. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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