
Daniel Radcliffe stars as Tim Jenkin, a real-life ANC activist who was
branded a terrorist – and imprisoned - in Africa’s maximum-security
Pretoria prison in the late 1970’s during Apartheid. Along with two fellow
freedom fighters, played by Daniel Webber (The Punisher, The Dirt)
and Mark Leonard Winter (The Dressmaker) Tim made a complex and
daring escape 18 months into his incarceration using hand-crafted wooden
keys. The ingenious escape attempt happened 40 years ago on 11 December
1979.
Escape from Pretoria
, based on the biography by Tim Jenkin, also stars Ian Hart (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone) and Stephen Hunter ( The Hobbit Trilogy). Directed and co-written by Francis Annan and
produced by David Barron ( Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella, Harry Potter).