Catch a Fire (film)
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| Directed by | Phillip Noyce |
| Written by | Shawn Slovo |
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| Edited by | Jill Bilcock |
| Music by | Philip Miller |
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| Distributed by | Focus Features (United States) StudioCanal (France) Universal Pictures (International) |
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Running time | 101 minutes |
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| Language | English |
| Budget | $14 million |
| Box office | $5.7 million |
Catch a Fire is a 2006 biographical thriller film about activists against apartheid in South Africa. The film was directed by Phillip Noyce and written by Shawn Slovo. Slovo's father, Joe Slovo, and mother Ruth First, leaders of the South African Communist Party and activists in the Anti-Apartheid Movement, appear as characters in the film, while her sister, Robyn Slovo, is one of the film's producers and also plays their mother Ruth First. Catch a Fire was filmed on location in South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique.