---
title: 'Invictus (2009)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Clint Eastwood'
released: '2009-12-03'
runtime_minutes: 134
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'History'
countries:
  - 'South Africa'
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/invictus-2009'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1057500/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Invictus (2009)

2009 · 134 min · Drama, History · South Africa, United States


## Synopsis

Invictus is a 2009 docudrama sports film directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. It is the third collaboration between Eastwood and Freeman after Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar Baby (2004), and the first between Eastwood and Damon, followed by Hereafter (2010). The story is based on the 2008 John Carlin book Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation about the events in South Africa before and during the 1995 Rugby World Cup. The national team, the Springboks, were not expected to perform well, the team having only recently returned to high-level international competition following the dismantling of apartheid—the country was hosting the World Cup, thus earning an automatic entry. Freeman portrays South African President Nelson Mandela while Damon played Francois Pienaar, the captain of the Springboks, the South African rugby union team.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Clint Eastwood](https://cinepixo.com/people/clint-eastwood)
- **Producer:** [Clint Eastwood](https://cinepixo.com/people/clint-eastwood), [Mace Neufeld](https://cinepixo.com/people/mace-neufeld), [Gamboa](https://cinepixo.com/people/gamboa), [José Ortega](https://cinepixo.com/people/jose-ortega), [Daniel Muñoz](https://cinepixo.com/people/daniel-munoz)
- **Screenplay:** [Anthony Peckham](https://cinepixo.com/people/anthony-peckham)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Kyle Eastwood](https://cinepixo.com/people/kyle-eastwood), [Michael Stevens](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-stevens-2)
- **Director of Photography:** [Tom Stern](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-stern)
- **Editor:** [Joel Cox](https://cinepixo.com/people/joel-cox), [Gary D. Roach](https://cinepixo.com/people/gary-d-roach)

## Cast

- [Rolf E. Fitschen](https://cinepixo.com/people/rolf-e-fitschen) as Naka Drotské
- [Geoff Brown](https://cinepixo.com/people/geoff-brown)
- [The Commandant](https://cinepixo.com/people/the-commandant) as Johan de Villiers
- [Scott Eastwood](https://cinepixo.com/people/scott-eastwood) as Joel Stransky
- [Patrick Lyster](https://cinepixo.com/people/patrick-lyster) as François Pienaar's father
- [Leleti Khumalo](https://cinepixo.com/people/leleti-khumalo) as Mary
- [Richard Morris](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-morris-3)
- [Marguerite Wheatley](https://cinepixo.com/people/marguerite-wheatley) as Nerine Winter
- [Albert Maritz](https://cinepixo.com/people/albert-maritz)
- [Given Stuurman](https://cinepixo.com/people/given-stuurman)
- [Morgan Freeman](https://cinepixo.com/people/morgan-freeman) as Nelson Mandela
- [Rudi Zandberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/rudi-zandberg)
- [Louis Pieterse](https://cinepixo.com/people/louis-pieterse)
- [Charl Engelbrecht](https://cinepixo.com/people/charl-engelbrecht) as Garry Pagel
- [Gideon Emery](https://cinepixo.com/people/gideon-emery)

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Official site: https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/invictus/
Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/invictus-2009
Film facts: Wikidata (Q689842); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.