INVICTUS...

Is a 2009 film based on the life of Nelson Mandela and set during the Rugby World Cup 1995 in South Africa. It was directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Morgan Freeman in the role of the then South African President Mandela and Matt Damon as Francois Pienaar, captain of South African rugby team. The story is based on John Carlin's book Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation. The film premiered in the U.S. on December 11, 2009.

The film tells the early years lived in South Africa after the abolition of the apartheid system of apartheid. After being released from prison in 1990, the activist leader Nelson Mandela years manages to reach the presidency of South Africa, and from that post is preparing to build a policy of reconciliation between the black majority was oppressed under apartheid and white minority who is afraid of possible revenge by the new government.
To this end Mandela pays attention to the selection of South African rugby, known as the Springboks. " This team does not go through a roll sports and failures accumulate, also does not have the support of the black population that identifies with the institutions of apartheid. Mandela calls for team captain, Francois Pienaar, and together they engage in a crusade to change the mindset of South African people and direct it towards national unity. To decide that it is necessary to win the Rugby World Cup 1995 which takes place in South Africa, whose final will take place at Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg.