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 | The Spacewalker | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.2/10 | ★ 7.0/10 |
| Year | 2020 | 2017 |
| Length | 1h 42m | 2h 20m |
| Genres | Drama, History, Thriller | Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Francis Annan | Dmitry Kiselev |
| Main cast | Ian Hart, Daniel Radcliffe, Grant Piro, Daniel Webber, Mark Leonard Winter | Evgeny 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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