Escape From Pretoria is drawn from Tim Jenkin's account of his dramatic escape from the notorious Pretoria Maximum Security Prison.
star Daniel Radcliffe has finished filming a new thriller where he plays a white anti-apartheid activist who escaped from one of South Africa's toughest jails, its distributor said on Tuesday.is drawn from Tim Jenkin's account of his dramatic escape from the notorious Pretoria Maximum Security Prison with his friend Stephen Lee in 1979.
Jenkin, now 70, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for handing out leaflets supporting the then banned African National Congress.
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