![]() ![]() Annan paces the drama very well, building suspense steadily until the tense finale sends you away both exhilarated and reflecting on the gravity of these men’s brave actions for a nation.Įscape from Pretoria is out on March 6th. Daniel Webber is also excellent as his impassioned cohort. Daniel Radcliffe continues to distance himself from Harry Potter, sporting a respectable and lived-in South African accent as Tim Jenkin, with a captivating performance of steely conviction and believably nervous disposition. Though the shadows of countless other prison movies, from The Shawshank Redemption to Birdman of Alcatraz, hang over it throughout, but it does enough to make its own mark by how it shows the characters’ admirable adherence to their beliefs and fierce determination to escape their unjust incarceration. 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 covert operations for Nelson Mandelas banned ANC. Their imprisonment in, and planned escape from, the maximum-security Pretoria prison after being branded terrorists for their pro-African National Congress activities is brought to life in compelling and ultimately thrilling fashion by director Francis Annan. Along with two imprisoned fellow freedom fighters, played by Daniel Webber and Mark Leonard Winter, Tim escaped on 11th December 1970 using hand-made wooden keys which he crafted. SNACK at The Glasgow Film Festival 2020 Escape from PretoriaĪs true stories that feel inherently suited to be told on the big-screen go, the tale of Apartheid prisoners Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee would be hard to beat. Daniel Radcliffe stars as Tim Jenkin a real-life ANC activist who was imprisoned in Africa’s maximum-security prison Pretoria in the 1970s during the Apartheid.
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