2020 · drama · history · thriller
Escape from Pretoria
Directed by Francis Annan1h 42m2020
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.
Our read: Escape from Pretoria (2020) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · history · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured drama / history, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- intense
- twisty
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