Catch a Fire
- Released on
- Runtime
- 101 mins
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.
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.
Cast
- Tim Robbins
- Derek Luke
- Bonnie Mbuli
- Mncedisi Shabangu
- Tumisho Masha
- Sithembiso Khumalo
- Terry Pheto
- Michele Burgers
- Mpho Lovinga
- Jay Anstey
- Charlotte Savage
- Nomhlé Nkyonyeni
- Susan Danford
- Michael Mabizela
- Erno Van Dyk
- Marius Weyers
- Eduan van Jaarsveldt
- Nomhle Nkonyeni
- Robert Hobbs
Director
- Phillip Noyce
Producers
- Robyn Slovo
- Eric Fellner
- Tim Bevan
- Anthony Minghella
Screenwriter
- Shawn Slovo
