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The trailer for Escape From Pretoria has dropped. As you can see from the embed above, the film stars Daniel Radcliffe, an adult man who is fully capable of growing a beard. It’s about Tim Jenkin, a South African political prisoner who, with two other imprisoned activists, escaped from Pretoria Central Prison (which has since been renamed Kgosi Mampuru II Management Area) in 1979.
There’s a great National Geographic Channel documentary on the escape that Jenkin himself posted to his YouTube channel back in 2013. It’s worth a watch:
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