Catch a Fire (2006)
1h 41m
Running Time
October 27, 2006Release Date
Catch a Fire (2006)
1h 41m
Running Time
October 27, 2006Release Date
Plot.
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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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Derek Luke
Patrick Chamusso
Tim Robbins
Col. Nic Vos
Bonnie Mbuli
Precious Chamusso
Mncedisi Shabangu
Zuko September
Tumisho Masha
Obadi
Sithembiso Khumalo
Sixpence
Terry Pheto
Miriam
Michele Burgers
Anna Vos
Mpho Lovinga
Johnny Piliso
Jay Anstey
Katie Vos
Charlotte Savage
Marie Vos
Nomhlé Nkyonyeni
Mama Dorothy
Phillip Noyce
Director
Shawn Slovo
Writer
Susan Danford
White Madam
Michael Mabizela
Shaven Head Bomber
Tim Bevan
Producer
Eric Fellner
Producer
Erno Van Dyk
Security Branch Policeman
Anthony Minghella
Producer
Marius Weyers
Police Brigadier
Eduan van Jaarsveldt
Special Branch Sergeant
Robyn Slovo
Producer
Nomhle Nkonyeni
Mama Dorothy
Media.
Details.
Release DateOctober 27, 2006
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 41m
Content RatingPG-13
Budget$14,000,000
Box Office$5,700,000
Filming LocationsSouth Africa
Genres
Wiki.
Catch a Fire is a 2006 biographical thriller film about activists against apartheid in South Africa. The film was directed by Phillip Noyce, from a screenplay 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.