Catch a Fire (film)

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. Slovos father, Joe Slovo, and mother Ruth First, leaders of the South African Communist Party and activists in the AntiApartheid Movement, appear as characters in the film, while her sister, Robyn Slovo, is one of the films producers and also plays their mother Ruth First. Catch a Fire was shot on location in South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique.

Patrick is unwillingly swept into Voss investigation due to his inability to provide a satisfactory explanation for his whereabouts at the time of the bombing he was actually having an affair with a woman not his wife. Eventually Patrick, his wife, Precious, played by Bonnie Henna, and his family are tortured and savagely abused by Vos and Voss subordinates. Desperate, Patrick says that he is willing to confess to a crime he did not commit to protect his family from torture. At last, Vos finally concludes that Patrick is innocent, and orders his release.Fuelled by the anger at the injustices he and his family suffered, Patrick joins Umkhonto we Sizwe, the guerrilla military wing of the African National Congress and becomes exactly what Vos had initially accused him of being. This decision was an act of revenge against the government for killing his friend and tormenting not only himself but his wife as well. He attempts to execute a plan to attack Secunda, the oil refinery he used to work for, by first bombing its adjacent water supply facilities, andminutes later triggering the main explosion within the refinery itself. This would allow the refinerys workforce to flee between the two explosions, and not be harmed. Also, the damage of the first bomb would reduce the possibility of successfully extinguishing the fire caused by the second, main explosion. Patrick succeeds in the first part, but the second bomb is discovered by Vos and deactivated. ........

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