His presidency faces enormous challenges in the post-Apartheid era, including rampant poverty and crime, and Mandela is particularly concerned about racial divisions between black and white South Africans, which would lead to violence. Four years later, Mandela is elected the first black President of South Africa. On 11 February 1990, Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison after having spent 27 years in captivity. The film grossed $122.2 million on a budget of $50–60 million. The film was met with positive critical reviews and earned Academy Award nominations for Freeman ( Best Actor) and Damon ( Best Supporting Actor). "Invictus" is also the title of a poem, referred to in the film, by British poet William Ernest Henley (1849–1903). The title refers to the Roman divine epithet Invictus and may be translated from the Latin as "undefeated" or "unconquered". Invictus was released in the United States on December 11, 2009. Freeman portrays South African President Nelson Mandela while Damon played François Pienaar, the captain of the Springboks, the South Africa rugby union 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. 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. Invictus is a 2009 biographical sports film directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon, making it the third collaboration between Eastwood and Freeman after Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar Baby (2004).
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