Catch a Fire

“The spark that ignites us, unites us.”

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.

Director

Phillip Noyce

Screenplay

Shawn Slovo

Music

Philip Miller

Status

Released

Release date

27/10/2006

Original language

English

Budget

US$ 14 M

Box office

US$ 6 M