Idris Elba and Morgan Freeman pay tribute to Nelson Mandela
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Nelson Mandela died yesterday at the age of 95. Idris Elba stars as Mandela in the biopic Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom. Morgan Freeman played Mandela also in Invictus. The film is released on January 3, 2014. The trailer for the film can be seen at bottom of the page. It follows Mandela’s journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his imprisonment for sabotage and conspiracy to overthrow the government, subsequent release and his inauguration in 1994 as the first post-apartheid democratically-elected president of South Africa.