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Release Date: 2009

Cast: Adjoa Andoh, Grant Roberts, Bonnie Henna, Marguerite Wheatley, Langley Kirkwood, Matt Damon, Matt Stern, Patrick Mofokeng, Tony Kgoroge, Julian Lewis Jones, Leleti Khumalo, Morgan Freeman ...MORE

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

Categories: Movies, Sports, Biopic [Feature], History, Drama Film, Film Adaptation, Biography, 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). The film is based on the book Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Changed a Nation by John Carlin. The filmmakers met with Carlin for a week in his Barcelona home, discussing how to transform the book into a screenplay. Morgan Freeman was the first actor to be cast, as Mandela. Matt Damon was then cast as team captain Pienaar, despite being significantly smaller than him and much smaller than members of the current LESS