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DIEGO MARADONA

By Asif KAPADIA

CINÉART BELGIUM - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline

Documentary - Completed 2018

From the Academy Award and BAFTA-winning team behind Amy and Senna, DIEGO MARADONA is a wild and irreverent look at one of the world’s most iconic sportsmen, both on and off the pitch, during his infamous time in Naples.

Festivals
& Awards

Festival de Cannes 2019

Out of Competition

Karlovy Vary IFF 2019

Horizons

Locarno Film Festival 2019

Piazza Grande

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- SPANISH, ENGLISH
- Duration
- 125 mn
- Director(s)
- Asif KAPADIA
- Producer(s)
- James GAY-REES (On the Corner), Paul MARTIN
- Synopsis
- The third film from the Academy Award and BAFTA-winning team behind SENNA and AMY and producer Paul Martin, DIEGO MARADONA is constructed from over 500 hours of never-before-seen footage from Maradona’s personal archive with the full support of the man himself.
  
  On 5th July 1984, Diego Maradona arrived in Naples for a world-record fee. For seven years all hell broke loose. The world’s most celebrated football icon and the most passionate but dangerous city in Europe were a perfect match for each other.
  
  On the pitch, Diego Maradona was a genius. Off the pitch, he was treated like a God. The charismatic Argentine loved a fight against the odds and led Napoli to their first-ever title. It was the stuff of dreams.
  
  But there was a price… Diego could do as he pleased while performing miracles on the pitch but, as time passed, darker days closed in.

DIEGO MARADONA

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