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Directed by | Phillip Noyce |
Written by | Shawn Slovo |
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Edited by | Jill Bilcock |
Music by | Philip Miller |
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Distributed by | Focus Features (United States) StudioCanal (France)[1] Universal Pictures (International) |
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Running time | 101 minutes[2] |
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Language | English |
Budget | $14 million |
Box office | $5.7 million |
Catch a Fire is a 2006 biographical thriller film about activists against apartheid in South Africa. The film was directed by Phillip Noyce, from a screenplay written by Shawn Slovo. Slovo's father, Joe Slovo, and mother Ruth First, leaders of the South African Communist Party and activists in the Anti-Apartheid Movement, appear as characters in the film, while her sister, Robyn Slovo, is one of the film's producers and also plays their mother Ruth First. Catch a Fire was filmed on location in South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique.