CATCH A FIRE
by Phillip Noyce
synopsis
The real-life story of a South African hero's journey to freedom. In the country's turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical - until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the country's oppressive reigning system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos further insinuates himself into the Chamussos' lives.
| original title: | Catch a Fire |
| country: | United Kingdom, United States |
| year: | 2007 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Phillip Noyce |
| film run: | 120' |
| release date: | DK 12/01/2007, SE 12/01/2007, DE 18/01/2007, ES 19/01/2007, FR 28/02/2007, UK 23/03/2007, NL 19/04/2007, IT 23/06/2007 |
| screenplay: | Shawn Slovo |
| cast: | Derek Luke, Tim Robbins, Bonnie Mbuli, Robert Hobbs, Terry Pheto |
| cinematography by: | Ron Fortunato |
| film editing: | Jill Bilcock |
| art director: | Johnny Breedt |
| costumes designer: | Reza Levy |
| producer: | Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Robyn Slovo, Miranda Culley, Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack |
| production: | Working Title Films, Mirage Enterprises |
| distributor: | StudioCanal, Focus Features (USA), United International Pictures GmbH (DE), Universal Pictures International (CH)/(ES)/(NL) |
