Survival is key
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.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and resolved.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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Cast
- Daniel RadcliffeTim Jenkin
- Daniel WebberStephen Lee
- Ian HartDenis Goldberg
- Mark Leonard WinterLeonard
- Nathan PageMongo
- Grant PiroSchnepel
- Len FirthVermeulen
- Lliam AmorKitson
- Adam TuominenJeremy
- PJ OatenRabkin
Crew
- Francis AnnanDirector
- L. H. AdamsScreenplay
- Francis AnnanScreenplay
- Geoffrey HallDirector of Photography
- David HirschfelderOriginal Music Composer
- Nick FentonEditor
- Jackie SheppardProducer
- David BarronProducer
- Mark BlaneyProducer
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