Especially the very close up takes of "Tim" masterly tells the story of the Terror he's hiding within See this movie!! The cinematography alone is worth it!! And the story is cleverly adapted by Francis Annan from Tim Jenkin's book It's readily available on various streaming services, as most Cinemas are currently closed due to Covid-19 restrictions. Daniel Radcliffe stars as Tim Jenkin, a real-life ANC activist who was branded a terrorist and imprisoned in South Africa s maximum-security Pretoria prison. As talking is prohibited at night, the dialogue is sparse, but this is soon forgotten as Visual long pans, close-ups and points of view cleverly replaces the would be dialogue. And his clear satisfaction in cutting short the 30 minutes visit of Leonard's son, is a key point in storyline. Escape from Pretoria is the true story of Tim Jenkin (Daniel Radcliffe) and Stephen Lee (Daniel Webber), young, white South Africans branded 'terrorists', and imprisoned in 1978 for working. But the truly great performance is by Nathan Page who is Mongo the personification of the archetype sadistic and racist prison guard that visually enjoys the violence and degradation of especially black or coloured inmates. Mark Leonard Winter is especially noteworthy in his role as the French prisoner Leonard, who only get to see his son for 30 minutes a year.(we'll get back to that) Ian Hart (Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone) is the wise elder political prisoner, who has the system well and truly pegged for what it is. The story of anti-apartheid activist Tim Jenkin’s escape from Pretoria Central Prison, a plot involving self-made wooden keys, debuts at a time when there is global upheaval surrounding racial. Daniel Radcliffe plays the political activist Tim Jenkin, and Daniel Webber (The Dirt) plays his mate Stephen Lee. MOscarbradley 'Escape from Pretoria' will never win any Oscars but this heartfelt, social-conscious thriller, based on a true story and set in a South Africa under Apartheid, is a lot better than I thought it was going to be. The story of Tim Jenkin's daring Escape from a 12 year sentence for spreading anti-apartheid propaganda sheds a light on the on the racist atrocities of the government in general and of the prison systems in particular.
This based on a true story thriller had me on the edge of my seat throughout the entire movie. Now Escape From Pretoria tells the story of Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white South African activists, imprisoned in 1978 for working on behalf of the African National Congress (ANC), and their. Although there were many protests and riots against this, the government suppressed them with a heavy fist and hundreds of black people were imprisoned in various prisons in the country. An overwrought, chest-thumping score is surplus to requirements in a film that already feels as though everything, from the characters to the walls of the cells, is sodden with panic sweats. The black people there experienced unparalleled suffering. A pacy screenplay, co-written by director Francis Annan and adapted from a book by Jenkin, rarely flags, but it’s the nervy camera, hugging the characters at hip height, the better to scrutinise each locked barrier to freedom, that most successfully builds the tension.This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Escape from Pretoria South Africa was once a hotbed of apartheid and racism. An overwrought, chest-thumping score is surplus to requirements in a film that already feels as though everything, from the characters to the walls of the cells, is sodden with panic sweats.
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So through an ingenious system of fake keys and levers, the men engineer a breakout. Released March 6th, 2020, Escape from Pretoria stars Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Webber, Ian Hart, Mark Leonard Winter The PG-13 movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 42 min, and received a user score. Their status as civil rights activists makes them targets for particularly malicious brutality from the guards their lengthy sentences seem untenable. The two men (a third escapee, played by Mark Leonard Winter, is a fictionalised version of a real character) are incarcerated for distributing ANC material by leaflet bombs. The real-life jailbreak of apartheid-era political prisoners Tim Jenkin (Daniel Radcliffe) and Stephen Lee (Daniel Webber) is the inspiration for this taut thriller.
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