The Pretoria Regional Prison is located on the outskirts of Johannesburg. It is a world-famous prison and a place where the South African national hero Mandela was once held.

How true is escape from Pretoria?

According to Jenkin himself, the film remains accurate to the narrative. “Of course, the individual scenes are fiction,” he said. “But Francis had a difficult job because it was an escape that took place over a year and a half, and he had to summarise a whole lot of different actions into one little scene.

Was Leonard a real person in escape from Pretoria?

Adapted from Tim Jenkin's autobiography Inside Out: Escape from Pretoria Prison, this film examines the 1979 true story of Jenkin (Daniel Radcliffe), Stephen Lee (Daniel Webber), and Leonard Fontaine (Mark Winter), three social activists and members of the African National Congress who had been imprisoned for their ...