Invictus is a movie directed by Clint Eastwood in 2009 and based on the book Playing the Enemy by John Carlin, first published in 2008. The movie features Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Tony Kgoroge, Julian Lewis Jones, Adjoa Andoh, Patrick Mofokeng, and others.
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Storyline
On 11 February 1990, Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison after having spent 27 years in jail.[5] Four years later, Mandela is elected the first black President of South Africa. The ill will which both groups hold towards each other is seen even in his own security detail where relations between the established white officers, who had guarded Mandela’s predecessors, and the black ANC additions to the security detail, are frosty and marked by mutual distrust.
Movie vs Book
Year
2009
Minutes
134
Movie Rate
7.30
Source: IMDb
Year
2008
Pages
274
Book Rate
8.32
S: Goodreads
Book
Playing the Enemy
Subtitle: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
Author: John Carlin
Country: UK
First published in: 2008
Length: 274 pages
Genre: Biography
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“The job of the screenplay is to extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen maintaining its essence.”
BARRY EISLER (Writer)
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