| Invictus (2009) | |
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| Country | USA |
| Year | 2009 |
| Genre | Biography | Drama | History |
| Tagline | His people needed a leader. He gave them a champion. |
| Plot |
Nelson Mandela, in his first term as the South African President, initiates a unique venture to unite the apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup. |
| Trivia | The word “invictus” is Latin for “invincible.” It is also the name of a short poem written in 1875 by William Ernest Henley, a British poet. The poem was written while Henley was in hospital having to have his stricken foot amputated. Mandela is heard saying lines from the poem. |
| Goofs | Factual errors: Johan de Villiers the TV commentator who first bad-mouths the Boks and then praises the Springboks, after the final whistle, asks the question of Pienaar: “What did it feel like to have 62,000 fans supporting you in the stadium?” and receives the answer: “We didn’t have 62,000 fans behind us, we had 43 million South Africans.” It was in fact a SABC reporter called David van der Sandt. |
Invictus
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