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|February 20, 2021
Daniel Radcliffe is a real-life anti-apartheid activist planning a dramatic prison break
Escape from Pretoria
NEW Genre: Thriller Available: Friday 26 February Runs: 106min TVSW says: Radcliffe shows his acting range
Daniel Radcliffe is almost unrecognisable in this movie thriller based on a real-life 1979 escape bid by anti-apartheid prisoners from a brutal South African jail.
The Harry Potter star plays Tim Jenkin, who along with fellow activists Stephen Lee (Daniel Webber) and Denis Goldberg (Ian Hart), begins secretly crafting a set of wooden keys to unlock the steel cell doors that keep them from freedom.
This story is from the February 20, 2021 edition of TV & Satellite Week.
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