‘Escape from Pretoria’ review: Dir. Francis Annan [2020]

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Francis Annan makes his feature film directorial debut with the fantastic Escape From Pretoria. The film charts the unbelievable true story of two political prisoners during the Apartheid in South Africa. These brave men join forces with another inmate to hatch a daring escape from the prison.

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White anti-apartheid activists escape from not-quite-Alcatraz in Escape From Pretoria, Francis Annan's account of a real 1979 jailbreak in South Africa.

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“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 compliment: “The most deluded of them all,” the warden adds, lest it be taken as such.