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Release Date: 2009

Cast: Adjoa Andoh, Tony Kgoroge, Patrick Lyster, Bonnie Henna, Leleti Khumalo, Grant Roberts, Marguerite Wheatley, Patrick Holland, Matt Damon, Langley Kirkwood, Patrick Mofokeng, Penny Downie ...MORE

Cast: Adjoa Andoh, Tony Kgoroge, Patrick Lyster, Bonnie Henna, Leleti Khumalo, Grant Roberts, Marguerite Wheatley, Patrick Holland, Matt Damon, Langley Kirkwood, Patrick Mofokeng, Penny Downie, Matt Stern, Robert Hobbs, Julian Lewis Jones, Morgan Freeman ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Biography, History, Film adaptation, Sports, Biopic [feature], Political drama

Invictus is a 2009 biographical sports drama film directed by Clint Eastwood starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. The story is based on the John Carlin book Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Changed a Nation about the events in South Africa before and during the 1995 Rugby World Cup, hosted in that country following the dismantling of apartheid. Freeman and Damon play, respectively, South African President Nelson Mandela and François Pienaar, the captain of the South African rugby union team the Springboks. Invictus was released in the United States on December 11,... MORE

Invictus is a 2009 biographical sports drama film directed by Clint Eastwood starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. The story is based on the John Carlin book Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Changed a Nation about the events in South Africa before and during the 1995 Rugby World Cup, hosted in that country following the dismantling of apartheid. Freeman and Damon play, respectively, South African President Nelson Mandela and François Pienaar, the captain of the South African rugby union team the Springboks. Invictus was released in the United States on December 11, 2009. The title Invictus may be translated from the Latin as "undefeated" or "unconquered", and is the title of a poem by English poet William Ernest Henley (1849–1903). After 27 years in jail, Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) is released in 1990 and subsequently elected President of South Africa. His immediate challenge is "balancing black aspirations with white fears", as racial tensions from the apartheid era have not completely disappeared. While Mandela attempts to tackle the country's largest problems—crime and unemployment, among many others—he attends a game of the Springboks, the country's LESS