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Synopsis: A political thriller: the real-life story of a South African hero's journey to freedom. In the country's turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical - until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the country's oppressive reigning system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos further insinuates himself into the Chamussos' lives.
Director(s): Phillip Noyce
Production: Focus Features
  2 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
62
Rotten Tomatoes:
75%
PG-13
Year:
2006
101 min
$4,291,965
Website
173 Views


to find the terrorists.

Daddy!

That night I was in Evander.

You told me

it was finished.

You told me 10 times,

you said it was finished.

It's true. It is finished.

So why did you

go to her house?

I will make this right.

I promise

I will make this right.

Comrades and compatriots,

duty calls.

The battle lines are drawn.

The African National Congress

commands and urges all of us

to act for unity and as one

to engage the enemy.

If united, there's action.

The time has come.

This government of slavery.

This government of oppression.

This apartheid monster

must be removed from power.

They will never stop the rage.

The arrests, the beatings,

the killings.

Until the day

we end white rule.

Let this be the year of the

most powerful offensive

against the apartheid regime.

Let this be the year

of the great unity action.

Let this be the year

of the great leap forward

to the threshold of victory.

OBADl:
Have you told anyone that

you were coming to Mozambique?

No.

Not even my family.

Once you cross that fence.

Once you decide to fight back,

everything is different.

You cannot contact anyone

on the other side.

That means no phone calls,

no letters.

You may never see

your family again.

Do you still wanna go on?

They have

killed my friend,

tortured my wife

for nothing.

Yes, I want to go on.

Yes. I want to go on.

When's Daddy coming back?

He'll let us know.

You were asleep.

He didn't want to wake you.

Girls, girls, stop asking

so many questions.

Just eat up.

Patrick.

OBADl:
Fall in, man!

I know you.

Each one of you,

I know who you are!

I know why you are here.

Commander.

Murder the Boers.

OBADl:
We don't kill

indiscriminately.

OBADl:
We're fighting

for freedom, comrades.

South Africa belongs

to all who live in it!

We train you, we arm you,

we send you back.

The Boers, they capture you.

Will you be able

to hold steadfast?

Or will you begin to sing?

We're ice-cool, Comrade.

We're from Soweto.

I'm from Soweto, Comrade. But if they

catch me, I will sh*t in my pants.

The Boers, they kill you.

Are you ready to die?

Are you ready to die?

Yes, Commander!

Are you ready to die?

Yes, Commander.

Are you ready to die?

Yes, Commander!

Are you ready to die?

Yes, Commander!

Are you ready to die?

Yes, Commander! Yes,

Commander! Yes, Commander!

There's the office here.

Where's the entrance?

The entrance is here

on Avenida Julius Nyerere.

Where do the people

from the office stay?

There's a house.

Here.

How many?

Two to three cadres.

Comrade J.S.

No, we don't know

where he stays.

Zuma? Tambo?

Sir, these people,

they move around.

They sleep

in different places.

One night there, the

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Shawn Slovo

Shawn Slovo (born 1950) is a screenwriter, best known for the film A World Apart, based on her childhood in South Africa under apartheid. She is the daughter of South African Communist Party leaders Joe Slovo and Ruth First. She wrote the screenplay for the 2006 film Catch a Fire (also a historical film about apartheid), and for the 2001 film Captain Corelli's Mandolin.In the late 1970s she served as Robert De Niro's personal assistant while he made the films Raging Bull and The King of Comedy. She also made the screenplay for Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight. Slovo currently lives in London and often works for Working Title Films. Her sister Gillian Slovo is also a writer and her sister Robyn Slovo is a producer. more…

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