SYNOPSIS

Escape From Pretoria. From the incredible true story of Tim Jenkin’s imprisonment and escape in Apartheid-era South Africa, Escape from Pretoria is a super tense prison break thriller.

Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) stars as Tim Jenkin, a real-life ANC activist who was branded a terrorist – and imprisoned – in Africa’s maximum-security Pretoria prison in the late 1970’s during Apartheid. Along with two fellow freedom fighters, played by Daniel Webber (The Punisher, The Dirt) and Mark Leonard Winter (The Dressmaker) Tim made a complex and daring escape 18 months into his incarceration using handcrafted wooden keys. The ingenious escape attempt happened 40 years ago on 11th December 1979. Escape from Pretoria, based on the biography by Tim Jenkin, also stars Ian Hart (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone) and Stephen Hunter (The Hobbit Trilogy). The film was directed by British director Francis Annan and produced by British producer David Barron (Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella, Harry Potter).

 


TRAILER


RELEASE DATE

March 06, 2020

DIRECTOR

Francis Annan

WRITER

Francis Annan, L.H. Adams (screenplay), Karol Griffiths (story development), Tim Jenkin (book)

COMPANY

Signature Entertainment

GENRE

Thriller

CERT

12A

RUNTIME

104 minutes

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