Escape from Pretoria
“Survival is key”
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.
Genres
Drama, History, Thriller
Studio
MEP Capital
Language
en
Status
Released
How Escape from Pretoria performed
Budget
N/A
Worldwide Gross
$2.4M
Gross Profit
N/A
Return
N/A
Opening Wknd (est.)
$350K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Tim Jenkin
Daniel Radcliffe
Tim Jenkin
Stephen Lee
Daniel Webber
Stephen Lee
Denis Goldberg
Ian Hart
Denis Goldberg
Leonard
Mark Leonard Winter
Leonard
Mongo
Nathan Page
Mongo
Schnepel
Grant Piro
Schnepel
Vermeulen
Len Firth
Vermeulen
Kitson
Lliam Amor
Kitson
Jeremy
Adam Tuominen
Jeremy
Rabkin
PJ Oaten
Rabkin
Daphne
Ratidzo Mambo
Daphne
Potluck
Vuyo Loko
Potluck
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