Invictus - L'invincibile

Titolo originale: Invictus
Regia: Clint Eastwood |
Anno: 2009
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Dramma Storia
Tag: sports | stadium | south africa | apartheid | idealism | nelson mandela | based on true story | idealist | rugby | president | racism | poverty | celebration | duringcreditsstinger | 1990s | fighting the system |
Cast: Morgan Freeman | Matt Damon | Tony Kgoroge | Patrick Mofokeng | Matt Stern | Julian Lewis Jones | Adjoa Andoh | Marguerite Wheatley | Leleti Khumalo | Patrick Lyster | Penny Downie | Sibongile Nojila | Bonnie Mbuli | Shakes Myeko | Louis Minnaar | Danny Keogh | Dan Robbertse | Robin Smith | David Dukas | Grant Swanby | Josias Moleele | Langley Kirkwood | Robert Hobbs | Melusi Yeni | Vuyo Dabula | Daniel Hadebe | Jodi Botha | Hennie Bosman | Refiloe Mpakanyane | Jakkie Groenewald | Murray Todd | Japan Mthembu | Albert Maritz | Sello Motloung | Meren Reddy | Lida Botha | Susan Danford | Sylvia Mngxekeza | James Lithgow | Malusi Skenjana | Bart Fouche | Johnny Cicco | Wayne Harrison | Ashley Taylor | Gift Leotlela | Kgosi Mongake | Given Stuurman | Vuyolwethu Stevens | Ayabulela Stevens | Nambitha Mpumlwana | André Jacobs | J.R. Redelinghuys | Grant Roberts | Scott Eastwood | Mark Bowen Davies | Dale Stephen Dunn | Graham Lindemann | Louis Ackerman | Andries Le Grange | Thomas Boyd | Clive Richard Samuel | Richard Abrahamse | Sean Pypers | Herman Botha | Riaan Wolmarans | Louis Pieterse | Ryan Scott | Daniel Deon Wessels | Vaughn Thompson | Charl Engelbrecht | Rolf Ernst Fitschen | Richard Morris | Ryan Olivier | Warren Edwards | Andrew Nel | Rudi Zandberg | Renzo Puccini | Abraham Vlok | Geoff Brown | McNeil Hendricks | John Paul Chapman | Sililo Victor Martens | Epeli Taione | Aukusitino Junior Poluleuligaga | Patrick Bell | Anton Coosner | Simon Peter Blakeley | Salman Sarfodien Davids | Warrick Ireland | Warren Taylor | Karl Bergemann | Jean-Pierre Van Zyl | Mohammed Ridhaa Damon | Mark Snodgrass | Theodore Grovers | Gordon Johnston | Conrad Marais | Pieter Engelbrecht | Bjorn Steinbach | Clinton Prinsloo | Yusuf Abrahams | Jody Burch | Wynand Collins | Abu Bakr Davids | Emile Olivier | Zak Feaunati | Anthony Burns | Marius Erwee | Mfundo Galada | Michael van Schalkwyk | Dan Visser | Jethro Mickleburgh | Ryan Williams | Gareth Rowe | Stuart Calder | Johnathan van der Walt | Shane Vallender | Abbas Hendricks | Karlo Aspeling | Calvin Kotze | Sivuyile Ngesi | Joe Probyn | Eugene Butterworth | Mzikayise Rala | Brendon Shields | Reagan Anderson | Willem Mouton | Devan Gericke | Richard Williams | Ashley Down | Clint van Rensburg | Patrick Holman | Sarel du Plessis | Len Berter | Shawn du Plooy | Joel Serman | Elrico Blaauw | Warren Butler | Jamie Holtzhausen | Shaun Harding | Callan Artus | Juan Coetzer | Jake Levin | Keith Daly | Shaffiq Nordien | Richard Smith | Edward O'Sullivan | Jaco Pieterse | Michael Ledwidge | Hendrik Franken | William Festers | Henry Temple | Dane Gallery | David John Fourie | Jadeon du Tait | Riaan van der Vyver | Gerhard Gerber | Ross Peacock | Troy Futter | Michael la Grange | Morne Vletter | Andrew Rose | Brandon Hendricks | Bradley Contereal | Zuhair Achmat | Pedro Noronha | Tahir Achmat | Faseegh Mallick | Mario Jacobs | Kurt Kuhn | Mark Katzen | Adenaan Bazier | Brendell Brandt | Stewart Palmer | Ryan Roman | Hyron Thyse | Abu-Bakr Hendricks | Gerard Pedersen | Nezaan Bewee | Niklaas Soutman | Don Eiman | Taariq Davids | Mark Rickard | Jessica Rotter |

Le dolorose tappe del cammino che ha portato Nelson Mandela alla presidenza del Sud Africa spingendolo a collaborare col capitano della squadra nazionale di rugby, Francois Pienaar, per tenere unito il paese dopo l'apartheid.

Approfondimenti

While this movie is focused on the inspiration of Nelson Mandela on the Springboks and the pathway t [...] D
Nelson Mandela said that only Morgan Freeman could portray him. Freeman was the first actor cast. D
Nelson Mandela's favorite band, the Soweto String Quartet, was hired to work on this movie. D
When this movie came about, composer Kyle Eastwood was at a jazz festival in South Africa, so Clint [...] D
McNeil Hendricks: Nicknamed "Maccie", as Chester Williams, the Springboks' only black player. Hendri [...] D
When Francois Pienaar (Matt Damon) calls on Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman), Mandela asks him to sit [...] D
Screenwriter Anthony Peckham is a native of South Africa, which gave him a special insight to the st [...] D
During the making of this movie, Clint Eastwood became a fan of rugby. While in South Africa, he wat [...] D
Zak Feaunati once played on the Bath Rugby team. As of 2009, he was head of Rugby at Bishop Vesey's [...] D
Clint Eastwood expressed interest in Remo Vinzens playing the part of Francois Pienaar. D
Nelson Mandela's personal assistant, Zelda La Grange, complimented the work of production designer J [...] D
Games were filmed with about 2,000 extras in the stands. Motion-capture techniques allowed the visua [...] D
This is the second movie you can see Matt Damon playing rugby. He also played it in The Departed - I [...] D
The word "invictus" is Latin for "undefeated". It is also the name of a short poem written in 1875 b [...] D
Morgan Freeman, who had been a friend of Nelson Mandela for many years, prepared for his role as Man [...] D
Nelson Mandela gave the welcoming speech of Rugby World Cup 1995 at Newlands and he was wearing a co [...] D
Matt Damon made a visit to Francois Pienaar's house, to ask him for assistance in preparing for his [...] D
Originally screenplay was titled "The Human Factor". D
The prison cell that the South African rugby team visited was the actual prison cell on Robben Islan [...] D
Matt Damon informed producer and director Clint Eastwood about Francois Pienaar's distinct physique: [...] D
Costume designer Deborah Hopper had to bring back the look of 1995, in regard to the Springbok unifo [...] D
The advertising hoardings at the games are correct and often are regarded as a mistake - ones during [...] D
The President's office, where Nelson Mandela and Francois Pienaar first meet, was filmed in the offi [...] D
Clint Eastwood, known for often only shooting one take to finish ahead of schedule, did just that on [...] D
The filmmakers wanted a well-known British actor to play Francois Pienaar's father, and auditions we [...] D
Nelson Mandela's personal assistant, Zelda La Grange, apparently asked Morgan Freeman to stop walkin [...] D
Morgan Freeman and his producing partner Lori McCreary had been developing a movie about Nelson Mand [...] D
Morgan Freeman is left-handed, but to portray Nelson Mandela as accurately as possible, something wh [...] D
Nelson Mandela's visit to the Springbok training camp was filmed in the Tokai area of Cape Town. Acc [...] D
The screenplay for this movie was featured in the 2007 Blacklist; a list of the "most liked" unmade [...] D
Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman's third movie together. The first two were Unforgiven (1992), and [...] D
"INVICTUS", a poem by William Ernest Henley: Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from [...] D
The scene where the airplane flew over the stadium actually happened in real life. However, this was [...] D
According to Laurence Mitchell, the head of the Cape Film Commission, "in terms of stature and stars [...] D
Clint Eastwood and Matt Damon's first of two movies together. The second one being Hereafter (2010). D
Scott Eastwood, who played fly-half Joel Stransky (who scored all the Springboks' points in the fina [...] D
To prepare for his role as Francois Pienaar, Matt Damon took intensive coaching at the Gardens Rugby [...] D
All of the rugby games were filmed at Johannesburg's Ellis Park Stadium, where they had actually bee [...] D
Before production began, Morgan Freeman and producer Lori McCreary visited South Africa to get Nelso [...] D
The film's soundtrack '9,000 Days', performed by Overtone and Yollandi Nortjieis can be heard halfwa [...] D
In the credits, Jonah Lomu's surname is spelled incorrectly as "Lumu". D
Following this movie's release, Morgan Freeman also narrated a documentary cousin called "The 16th M [...] D
Exterior scenes of Nelson Mandela's house were done at his actual residence in Johannesburg. Interio [...] D
Morgan Freeman replaced the word "chance" with the word "fate" in the third line of the second stanz [...] D