Diego Maradona
An archive-led portrait of Maradona in Naples, tracing how a footballer, a public image and a city’s expectations became difficult to separate.
- YEAR
- 2019
- DIRECTOR
- Asif Kapadia
- COUNTRY
- United Kingdom
- LENGTH
- 130 min
- SPORT / THEME
- Football · Documentary
- CAST / FEATURED PEOPLE
- Diego Maradona
Diego Maradona in the wider sports-film conversation
Diego Maradona is worth viewing not only as a self-contained story but as part of a wider conversation about how sport is represented on screen. The documentary extends Kapadia’s archive-biography method toward celebrity and social pressure, showing how media images can both preserve and consume a sporting life.
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Synopsis
An archive-led portrait of Maradona in Naples, tracing how a footballer, a public image and a city’s expectations became difficult to separate.
Place in film history
The documentary extends Kapadia’s archive-biography method toward celebrity and social pressure, showing how media images can both preserve and consume a sporting life.