Maradona by Kusturica (2008)

Maradona by Kusturica is a documentary on the life of Argentine footballer Diego Maradona, directed by the award-winning Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica. The documentary premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 2008.

Kusturica stated the following regarding the film:



It is the first film that will treat all the aspects of the life of Maradona.
The film will be very complex to make, because I want to show the true personality of Maradona. Football is a science of great mathematical precision!
The film ends when the former football player being in good health, and has no more addiction to drugs.
The film will show "the three Maradonas" I've discovered during the shooting: the football teacher, the politically incorrect citizen against the unilateral politics of the USA and the family man. These three Diegos will be in the end of the film I will shoot in the Aztec Stadium in Mexico, where Diego scored one of his most famous goals, during the World Cup 1986 against the English team.

Synopsis

Emir Kusturica célèbre dans ce film l'incroyable histoire de Diego Maradona : héros sportif, Dieu vivant du football, artiste de génie, champion du peuple, idole déchue et modèle pour des générations du monde entier. De Buenos Aires à Naples - en passant par Cuba - Emir Kusturica retrace la vie de cet homme hors du commun, de ses humbles débuts à sa notoriété mondiale, de la plus spectaculaire ascension au déclin le plus profond. Un documentaire unique sur une légende vivante, filmé par son plus grand fan.

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