“You are the white Mandela,” says a ham-faced warden, all but spitting in the face of anti-apartheid activist Tim Jenkin upon his arrival at Pretoria Local Prison in 1978. It’s not intended as a ...

The slightly political prison thriller “Escape From Pretoria” works best when onscreen action is focused on Daniel Radcliffe, playing real-life South African political prisoner Tim Jenkin, as he leads ...

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Arclight Films has come on board true-life prison break thriller 'Escape From Pretoria,' alongside MEP Capital, with assistance from the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC), the trio announced ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Daniel Radcliffe continues to move far away from Hogwarts with “Escape From Pretoria,” a riveting, true-life prison drama that’s ...

14:58, Fri, Mar 6, 2020 Updated: 14:59, Fri, Mar 6, 2020 Escape from Pretoria sees Daniel Radcliffe in a role fans will have never seen him in before. He stars as Tim Jenkin, the man who escaped ...

Momentum Pictures plans to “Escape From Pretoria.” It has taken North American distribution rights to the movie, which stars Daniel Radcliffe as a political prisoner attempting to break out from a ...

Starring Daniel Radcliffe as a jailed anti-apartheid activist, this true-life prison-break thriller is stronger on genre mechanics than political nuance. “You are the white Mandela,” says a ham-faced ...

Based on the real-life prison break of two political captives, Escape from Pretoria is a race-against-time thriller set in the tumultuous apartheid days of South Africa. In 1979 three political ...

The method of prison-break at the heart of Escape From Pretoria feels made for the movies: Tim Jenkin (Radcliffe), a political prisoner in Apartheid-era South Africa, hand-crafted a set of wooden keys ...