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Escape from Pretoria (2020)

Movie · Drama, History, Thriller · ⭐ 7.2/10 · 1h 42m

South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison.

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