Diego Maradona (film)

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Movie
German title Diego Maradona
Original title Diego Maradona
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English , Spanish
Publishing year 2019
length 130 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Asif Kapadia
script Asif Kapadia
production James Gay-Rees ,
Paul Martin
music Antonio Pinto
cut Chris King
occupation

Diego Maradona is a 2019 British documentary directed by Asif Kapadia about the career of soccer player Diego Maradona . The film premiere took place on May 19, 2019 at the Cannes Film Festival . The German theatrical release was on September 5, 2019.

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The film tells the football career of the Argentinian Diego Maradona with a special focus on the time at SSC Napoli from 1984 to 1991. Numerous, partly previously unpublished film sequences and photos as well as recordings from the family's private archive are shown, by contemporary witnesses, historians and Maradonas Family and to be commented by Maradona herself. The 1986 World Cup and its rise in world football are also highlighted. In particular, the final round game between Argentina and England and his hand of God as well as the Falklands War, which was decided a few years earlier, are presented and explained. The game against Italy at the 1990 World Cup , with Maradona converting an important penalty in the Naples stadium and thereby killing the hosts from the tournament, is highlighted here with the consequences for Maradona.

Reviews

Ulrich Kriest in the film service thinks that the "brilliant documentary assembled with remote archive material and off-commentaries" combines "the images of Maradona's career into an emotionally gripping, albeit woodcut-like, pointed drama that ignores the time before and after his involvement in Naples" let. The TV magazine Prisma writes that the "outstanding" film biography "creates a closeness", "especially through the many recordings from the family's private archive [...] that has seldom been seen in a sports documentary". Regardless of all private glimpses, "the film still always maintains the balance between honoring a great athlete and honestly dealing with a tragic crash".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Diego Maradona . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 191404 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ^ Film service : Diego Maradona , accessed December 22, 2019
  3. ↑ prisma online : Diego Maradona , accessed December 22, 2019