Twenty years ago, on 11 February 1990, Nelson Mandela, a South African anti-apartheid leader, was released from prison after serving a 27-year sentence in Robben Island and Pollsmoor. There would be, therefore, no better occasion than this to invite you to go to the cinema with us.
COME TO THE CINEMA WITH US!! NEXT 17/18 FEB AT 5 p.m. AT THE AVENIDA CINEMAS (next to the Plaza de Armas bus station)
We'll meet there at 4.30!!!!
Based on "The Human Factor", by John Carlin
Director: Clint Eastwood
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon.
SYNOPSIS
“Invictus” tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) joined forces with the captain of South Africa’s rugby team, Francois Pienaar (Matt Damon), to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa’s underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.
Watch the trailer here:
Let's take advantage of the situation to learn a bit more about that historical Final of the Rugby World Cup and about the man behind, Nelson Mandela, and his country, South Africa.
About South Africa...
"It always seems impossible until its done"
2 comments:
I got speechless! Madiba was a old man but very inteligent. Yes, so he had long time for study to his enemy.
I lovely. I have in my cork the main sentence of Invictus as much again.
Yes, Ana, Madiba was indeed a very intelligent man. He had a long time to study his "enemy". I'm glad you loved it. Here you have the whole of the poem:
W. E. Henley
Invictus
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 unbow'd.
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.
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