“Survival is key”
Escape from Pretoria
7.2
1,500 votes·2020
·1h 42m
·MovieDramaHistoryThriller
Overview
South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison.
Keywords
based on novel or book1970spolitical activismapartheidanc (african national congress)based on true storyracismprison breakanti-racismpolitical persecutionpretoria, south africa
Cast
Daniel Radcliffe
Tim Jenkin
Daniel Webber
Stephen Lee
Ian Hart
Denis Goldberg
Mark Leonard Winter
Leonard
Nathan Page
Mongo
Grant Piro
Schnepel
Len Firth
Vermeulen
Lliam Amor
Kitson
Adam Tuominen
Jeremy
PJ Oaten
Rabkin
Ratidzo Mambo
Daphne
Vuyo Loko
Potluck
Maris J. Caune
Loggie
Adam Ovadia
Van Wyk
Rory Walker
Walter
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