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Catch a Fire(Movie, 2006)

PG-13
| 1h 41min | Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller
Catch a FireRating: 3.1/5 (with 5151 votes)
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 filmed on location in South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique. ()
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Awards & Nominations for Catch a Fire

Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Motion Picture Black Reel Award for Best Actor

About Catch a Fire

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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Additional Information

Shot in: South Africa
Plays in: South Africa
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: Afrikaans (AF), English (EN), Zulu (ZU)
Translated into 20 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 10/27/2006
Appearing Characters: Patrick Chamusso, Joe Slovo, Ruth First
Cast: Derek Luke, Tim Robbins, Bonnie Mbuli, Terry Pheto, Anthony Bishop, Brandon Auret, Harriet Manamela, Patrick Chamusso, Carel Trichardt, Eckard Rabe, Robyn Slovo, Zola, Jonathan Pienaar, Marius Weyers, Mncedisi Shabangu, Tumisho K. Masha, Michele Burgers, Malcolm Purkey
Director: Phillip Noyce
Screenwriter: Shawn Slovo
Film Editor: Jill Bilcock
Director of Photography: Ron Fortunato
Composer: Philip Miller
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Wer Feuer sät"
"Au nom de la liberté"
"Игра с огнем"
Budget: 14,000,000 USD
Revenue: 5,710,236 USD (= 41%)

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