Escape From Pretoria is out Friday
South Africa-set, Adelaide-filmed political prison break drama Escape From Pretoria will officially hit the Australian corner of the internet this week.
There was an awful lot of excitement in 2019 when half of Pirie Street shut down to accommodate the filming of Escape From Pretoria. Setting aside the indignity of a 2020 Adelaide street being chosen as a perfect stand-in for late-70s apartheid-era Johannesberg, the city was set a-flutter by the prospect of former Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe skulking around our streets setting off leaflet bombs in flares and a wig.
Putting aside the evident joy our state extracted from collectively stalking the grown up boy wizard, the film itself is a sobering political thriller. Based on the 1979 escape of several white anti-apartheid activists from Pretoria Central Prison, British director Francis Annan has Radcliffe portray real life escapee Tim Jenkin, upon whose memoir the film is based.
Read the full story on: Adelaide Review.