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Catch a Fire

2006, Movie, 1h 41min

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.

Country: United Kingdom,France,United States

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Reviews

Critic Helen O'Hara

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An intelligent thriller that effectively conveys the message that terrorism, even in apartheid-era South Africa, is rarely a black-and-white issue.

Read full review at Empire

Critic Marc Savlov

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...one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist, and in 1980s Johannesburg, the demarcation between the two was particularly vague (to the ruling whites, anyway).

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle

Critic Håkan Steen

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Mycket är värt att applådera med ”Bob Marley: one love” men det hade sannolikt gått att utvinna större drama ur en film om reggaelegendens mest omtumlande tid i livet.

Read full review at Aftonbladet

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