Why it may be worth watching
- Catch a Fire combines Action and Drama elements in one feature.
- The principal cast includes Tim Robbins, Derek Luke, Bonnie Mbuli.
- Viewers currently rate it 6.3/10 from 156 votes.
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Catch a Fire
The spark that ignites us, unites us.
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
Tim RobbinsNic Vos
Derek LukePatrick Chamusso
Bonnie MbuliPrecious Chamusso
Mncedisi ShabanguZuko September
Tumisho MashaObadi
Sithembiso KhumaloSixpence
Terry PhetoMiriam
Michele BurgersAnna Vos
Mpho LovingaJohnny Piliso
Jay AnsteyKatie Vos
Charlotte SavageMarie Vos
Nomhlé NkyonyeniMama Dorothy
Susan DanfordWhite Madam
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Best suited to viewers looking for Action, Drama, Thriller.
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Themes and topics
police brutalityright and justiceresistancesouth africaapartheidanc (african national congress)
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