Derek Luke gives an astounding performance in this intense and involving fact-based political thriller set in 1980s South Africa. Luke plays an oil-refinery worker, unjustly arrested and tortured as a terrorist, who turns anti-apartheid revolutionary with a righteous vengeance. Tim Robbins' portrayal of a police official is a picture of subtle evil. Bonnie Henna. Directed by Phillip Noyce. Screenwriter Shawn Slovo's white parents both served as anti-apartheid activists in South Africa.