Catch a Fire

Name: Catch a Fire
Cast: Tim Robbins, Derek Luke, Bonnie Mbuli, Mncedisi Shabangu, Tumisho Masha

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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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Cast & Crew

Director: Phillip NoyceWriter: Shawn SlovoProducers: Anthony Minghella, Eric Fellner, Robyn Slovo, Sydney Pollack, Tim Bevan

Tim Robbins

as Nic Vos

Derek Luke

as Patrick Chamusso

Bonnie Mbuli

as Precious Chamusso

Mncedisi Shabangu

as Zuko September

Tumisho Masha

as Obadi

Sithembiso Khumalo

as Sixpence

Terry Pheto

as Miriam

Michele Burgers

as Anna Vos

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