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Escape from Pretoria

Escape from Pretoria

7.2/102020Movie102 minRated PG-13DramaHistoryThriller

Director: Francis Annan

South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison.

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    Cast

    • Daniel RadcliffeTim Jenkin
    • Daniel WebberStephen Lee
    • Ian HartDenis Goldberg
    • Mark Leonard WinterLeonard
    • Nathan PageMongo
    • Grant PiroSchnepel
    • Len FirthVermeulen
    • Lliam AmorKitson
    • Adam TuominenJeremy
    • PJ OatenRabkin
    • Ratidzo MamboDaphne
    • Vuyo LokoPotluck

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