Escape from Pretoria

Escape from Pretoria
Theatrical release poster
Directed byFrancis Annan
Written by
  • Francis Annan
  • L.H. Adams
Based onInside Out: Escape from Pretoria Prison
by Tim Jenkin
Produced by
  • Mark Blaney
  • Jackie Sheppard
  • David Barron
  • Michelle Krumm
  • Gary Hamilton
Starring
CinematographyGeoffrey Hall
Edited byNick Fenton
Music byDavid Hirschfelder
Production
companies
Distributed bySignature Entertainment
Release date
  • 6 March 2020 (2020-03-06) (United Kingdom)
Running time
106 minutes
Countries
  • Australia
  • South Africa
  • United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Box office$2.4 million

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.

It was filmed in Adelaide, South Australia, in early 2019, both on location in the city and suburbs and in the Glenside studios of the South Australian Film Corporation.[3][4]

  1. ^ "About us". Footprint Films. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  2. ^ Campora, Matthew (December 2013). "Disrespectful Indigenisation: The Films of Robert Connolly". Contemporary Australian Filmmakers (69). Retrieved 26 November 2021 – via Senses of Cinema.
  3. ^ Sutton, Malcolm (13 March 2019). "Adelaide transformed into apartheid-era Cape Town for Escape From Pretoria filming". Australian Broadcasting Corporation News. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  4. ^ "Escape From Pretoria commences production in South Australia (13 March 2018)". South Australian Film Corporation. 13 March 2019. Retrieved 16 March 2019.


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