Escape from Pretoria vs The Spacewalker

Escape from Pretoria has the higher audience score (7.2/10 against 7/10 for The Spacewalker). Escape from Pretoria is the shorter watch at 1h 42m compared with 2h 20m. The Spacewalker is the older of the two (2017 against 2020). Both are drama, history, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Escape from Pretoria posterEscape from Pretoria2020 VS The Spacewalker posterThe Spacewalker2017
Escape from PretoriaThe Spacewalker
Audience score★ 7.2/10★ 7.0/10
Year20202017
Length1h 42m2h 20m
GenresDrama, History, ThrillerAdventure, Drama, History, Thriller
Country––
DirectorFrancis AnnanDmitry Kiselev
Main castIan Hart, Daniel Radcliffe, Grant Piro, Daniel Webber, Mark Leonard WinterEvgeny Mironov, Vladimir Ilin, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Kirill Poluhin, Anatoliy Kotenyov

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 Spacewalker

March 1965. In the heat of the Cold War, the USA and the USSR are competing for supremacy in space. What both superpowers aim for in this race, is to be the first to have a man walk in outer space. To accomplish that, no price is too high and no risk is too great. Now it’s up to the unlikely duo of a seasoned war veteran and a hot-headed test-pilot to fulfill this mission. Two men in a tiny spaceship, without proper testing, facing the complete…

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