Invictus

The film tells the true story about how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa's rugby team to help unite the country during the 1995 World Rugby Cup held in South Africa.

Mandela has just been apointed as president with a nation that is racially and economically divided as result of the history of apartheid.

Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela forms a close relationship with the captain of the team.

The name of the movie Invictus is derived from following poem written by the English Poet William Ernest Henley. It was first published in 1875.

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.