After a failed sabotage mission, a trio of anti-apartheid freedom fighters ends up in a tense bank hostage situation. Based on a true story.
Acting
Thabo Rametsi's eyes carry generations of exhaustion and fire.
Direction
Dube Jr. keeps the bank's walls closing in psychologically.
Director
Mandlakayise Walter Dube, Jr.
Thabo Rametsi
Calvin Khumalo
Noxolo Dlamini
Mbali Terra Mabunda
Stefan Erasmus
Aldo Erasmus
Arnold Vosloo
Johan Langerman
Tumisho Masha
Sechaba
Sarah Kozlowski
Madeleine
Clayton Boyd
Sniper
Jacques Gombault
Strydom
Elani Dekker
Christine
Michelle Mosalakae
Rachel
Craig Jackson
Priest
Liyabuya Gongo
Baker
Bongani Madondo
Mpimpi
Bonnie Lee Bouman
English Woman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Silverton Siege on January 25, 1980 lasted less than two hours; the film stretches tension across 100 minutes of escalating dread.
Netflix's first South African original to center anti-apartheid militants rather than Nelson Mandela's saintly mythology—controversial at home for humanizing 'terrorists.'
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