Catch a Fire (film)
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| Directed by | Phillip Noyce |
| Produced by |
Tim Bevan Eric Fellner Anthony Minghella Robyn Slovo |
| Written by | Shawn Slovo |
| Starring |
Derek Luke Tim Robbins Bonnie Henna |
| Music by | Philip Miller |
| Cinematography |
Ron Fortunato Garry Phillips |
| Edited by | Jill Bilcock |
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| Distributed by |
Focus Features (US) Universal Pictures International (UK) |
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101 min |
| Country | United Kingdom United States France South Africa |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $14 million |
| Box office | $5,724,236 |
Catch a Fire is a 2006 biographical thriller film about activists against apartheid in South Africa. The film was directed by Phillip Noyce, from a screenplay written by Shawn Slovo. Slovo's father, Joe Slovo, and mother Ruth First, leaders of the South African Communist Party and activists in the Anti-Apartheid Movement, appear as characters in the film, while her sister, Robyn Slovo, is one of the film's producers and also plays their mother Ruth First. Catch a Fire was shot on location in South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique.
The film begins in "Northern Coalfields, South Africa, 1980". It revolves around Patrick Chamusso, a young, apolitical man (played by Derek Luke) who is accused of carrying out an attack against the government, and an Afrikaner police officer, Nic Vos, played by Tim Robbins. Vos is in charge of locating the perpetrators of a recent bomb attack against the Secunda CTL synthetic fuel refinery, which is the largest coal liquefaction plant in the world.
Patrick is unwillingly swept into Vos's investigation due to his inability to provide a satisfactory explanation for his whereabouts at the time of the bombing (he was actually having an affair with a woman not his wife). Eventually Patrick, his wife, Precious, (played by Bonnie Henna), and his family are tortured and savagely abused by Vos and Vos's subordinates. Desperate, Patrick says that he is willing to confess to a crime he did not commit to protect his family from torture. At last, Vos finally concludes that Patrick is innocent, and orders his release.
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