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South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison.
Top billed cast
Daniel RadcliffeTim Jenkin
Daniel WebberStephen Lee
Ian HartDenis Goldberg
Mark Leonard WinterLeonard
Nathan PageMongo
Grant PiroSchnepel
Len FirthVermeulen- Lliam AmorKitson
Adam TuominenJeremy- PJ OatenRabkin
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