Plot A political thriller: the real-life story of a South African hero's journey to freedom. In the country's turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical - until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the country's oppressive reigning system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos further insinuates himself into the Chamussos' lives.
Encoding info Encoded mostly from WEB-DL (Catch.A.Fire.2006.1080p.WEBRIp.DD5.1.x264-monkee.mkv), with HandBrake 1.2.2: HEVC x265 10 bit veryslow preset, CRF 26, 720p, aq-mode 1, sao/strong-intra-smoothing/rect disabled.
First 10 seconds of studio logos cut.
monkee source has a video glitch at 57:37. So 57:26-57:30 of this encode was replaced from the source Catch.a.Fire.2006.720p.HDTV.x264.mkv
STARZ watermark appears occasionally. But this source is Open Matte while the AMZN source is not.
Regular subtitles from Catch.a.Fire.2006.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.x264-ABM.eng.srt with some early timing edits, SDH subtitles passed through from monkee source.
MEDIAINFO General
Filename = Catch a Fire (2006) Open Matte 720p.10bit.MiXED.x265-budgetbits.mkv
Duration = 1 h 41 min
Size = 669 MiB
Overall bit rate = 924 kb/s
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Resolution = 1280x720
Aspect ratio = 16:9 (1.778)
Bit rate = 850 kb/s
Frame rate = 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
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Title = Stereo
Format = Opus Channels = 2 channels
Bit rate = 71.7 kb/s
Sampling rate = 48.0 kHz
Language = English
Catch a Fire is a 2006 historically based drama about anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, focussing on the life of Patrick Chamusso, an timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest synthetic fuel plant in the world, who in 1980 is wrongly accused, imprisoned, and tortured for an attempt to bomb the plant. The injustice transforms the apolitical worker into a radicalised insurgent, who then carries out his own successful sabotage mission.
