Catch A Fire
Catch a Fire is a 2006 biographical thriller film about activists against apartheid in South Africa. The film was directed by Phillip Noyce, from a screenplay written by Shawn Slovo. Slovo's father, Joe Slovo, and mother Ruth First, leaders of the South African Communist Party and activists in the Anti-Apartheid Movement, appear as characters in the film, while her sister, Robyn Slovo, is one of the film's producers and also plays their mother Ruth First. Catch a Fire was shot on location in South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique.
Plot
In South Africa in 1980, Patrick Chamusso, a young, apolitical man, is accused of carrying out a terrorist attack. Afrikaner police officer Nic Vos is in charge of locating the perpetrators of a recent bomb attack against the Secunda CTL synthetic fuel refinery, which is the largest coal liquefaction plant in the world.
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| author | Shawn Slovo |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | South Africa |
| director | Phillip Noyce |
| editor | Jill Bilcock |
| events | Cold War |
| genre | thriller |
| keywords | african national congress afrikaner anc apartheid arrest bomb bomb attack coal liquefaction oil refinery orphan police officer secunda ctl sell out sells him out synthetic fuel talk terrorist attack umkhonto we sizwe wait water supply |
| musicBy | Philip Miller |
| nomination | Black Reel Award for Best Actor NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Motion Picture Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture |
| producer | Anthony Minghella Eric Fellner Robyn Slovo Tim Bevan |
| publisher | Focus Features Universal Pictures International |
| recordedAt | South Africa |
| theme | biographical war |