Overview
Plot
The true story of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at South Africa's largest synthetic fuel plant, whose wrongful arrest and torture for a bombing he didn't commit transform him into a radicalized insurgent.
- Directors
- Phillip Noyce
- Cast
- Tim Robbins, Derek Luke, Bonnie Mbuli, Mncedisi Shabangu, Tumisho Masha, Sithembiso Khumalo, Terry Pheto, Michele Burgers, Mpho Lovinga, Jay Anstey, Charlotte Savage, Nomhlé Nkyonyeni, Susan Danford, Michael Mabizela, Erno Van Dyk, Marius Weyers, Eduan van Jaarsveldt, Robert Hobbs
- Country
- France, United Kingdom, United States of America, South Africa, Swaziland, Mozambique
- Genre
- Action, Drama, Thriller
- Release date
- 2006-10-27
- Studios
- Working Title, Mirage Enterprises, StudioCanal
Plot
Warning: spoilers
Catch a Fire Plot and Cast
Set in apartheid South Africa, this true story centers on Patrick Chamusso, an apolitical foreman at Secunda CTL, the world's largest synthetic fuel plant. After being wrongly accused, imprisoned, and tortured for a bombing attempt, the injustice radicalizes him. He becomes an insurgent and carries out his own successful sabotage mission.
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