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Escape from Pretoria is a 2020 Australian prison film co-written and directed by Francis Annan, based on the real-life prison escape by three political prisoners in South Africa in 1979, starring Daniel Radcliffe and Daniel Webber. It is based on the 2003 book Inside Out: Escape from Pretoria Prison by Tim Jenkin, one of the escapees.
Dec 19, 2003 · Jenkin and Lee were from the start determined to escape and roped a number of their comrades into the plan. For various reasons, in the end only Alex Moumbaris joined them in the actual escape.
Mar 2, 2020 · Daniel Radcliffe in Escape from Pretoria (Picture: Signature) Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee broke out prison. ‘We has skype chats, he wanted to learn about the character and the accent,’ Jenkin ...
For South Africa, it seems, the past is harder to escape than a prison. ‘Escape from Pretoria’ is in cinemas now. ‘Escape from Pretoria’ is the story of Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two ...
- Stephen Applebaum
African National Congress. Timothy Peter Jenkin (born 1948) is a South African writer, anti- apartheid activist and former political prisoner. He is best known for his 1979 escape from Pretoria Local Prison (part of the Pretoria Central Prison complex), along with Stephen Lee and Alex Moumbaris.
Lee’s father had given them a copy of Papillon, the autobiographical novel by Henri Charrière, about his escape from a prison colony in French Guyana. “For us that was a manual of escape,” Jenkin says. Like all great escapes, it very nearly went wrong. In the 18 months Jenkin spent inside, he had never tried the lock in that final door.
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Mar 19, 2020 · Naturally, as soon as I heard 20-odd years later that Jenkin and Lee’s escape had received the film treatment, I was on board. On paper, Escape From Pretoria ’s got everything — a timely story about ideological and moral resistance against institutional corruption, Daniel Radcliffe and Ian Hart reuniting, and suspense-driven intricate escape processes.
