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Catch a Fire

The spark that ignites us, unites us.

★ 6.3 2006 101 min PG-13 ActionDramaThriller

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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Released in 2006, Catch a Fire sits inside the 2000s catalog. Explore its creators, studio connections, genres and nearby releases from the same period.

Release
2006-10-27
Rating
PG-13
TMDB score
6.3/10
Original language
EN
Status
Released
Production
France, United Kingdom, United States of America
Studio
Working Title Films, Mirage Enterprises, StudioCanal
Topicspolice brutalityright and justiceresistancesouth africaapartheidanc (african national congress)

This title is available from the shared catalog, but it is not published as an index-targeted page for this specialty edition.

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