Escape from Pretoria vs The Photographer of Mauthausen
Escape from Pretoria has the higher audience score (7.2/10 against 7/10 for The Photographer of Mauthausen). Escape from Pretoria is the shorter watch at 1h 42m compared with 1h 51m. The Photographer of Mauthausen is the older of the two (2018 against 2020). Both are drama, history, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Escape from Pretoria
The Photographer of Mauthausen| Escape from Pretoria | The Photographer of Mauthausen | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.2/10 | ★ 7.0/10 |
| Year | 2020 | 2018 |
| Length | 1h 42m | 1h 51m |
| Genres | Drama, History, Thriller | Drama, History, Thriller |
| Country | – | Hungary |
| Director | Francis Annan | Mar Targarona |
| Main cast | Ian Hart, Daniel Radcliffe, Grant Piro, Daniel Webber, Mark Leonard Winter | Rainer Reiners, Mario Casas, Alain Hernández, Luka Peroš, Frank Feys |
Synopsis
Escape from Pretoria
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.
The Photographer of Mauthausen
Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in the SS Photographic Service. Between 1943 and 1945, he hides, with the help of other prisoners, thousands of negatives, with the purpose of showing the freed world the atrocities committed by the Nazis, exhaustively documented. He will be a key witness during the Nuremberg Trials.
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