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Diego Maradona

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Diego Maradona traces the arc of a standard sports documentary, but illuminates its subject with uncommon clarity and depth.

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Geordie Gray The Australian 12/03/2022
In this film, the athlete is a man of wild contradictions: there is Diego, the devoted son, hardworking and insecure; and Maradona, the character he invented to survive, arrogan, bullish, and on a downwards spiral. Go to Full Review John Doyle Globe and Mail 12/16/2020
It's all here: the great games, goals and great scandals. It teems with life and is unlike most biopics about a sports legend. That is, it actually delivers a pungent sense of the atmosphere surrounding him. Go to Full Review Ryu Spaeth The New Republic 10/11/2019
The tragedy of Maradona is that he was too simple to learn how to play anything other than soccer-and the sins for which he was punished, it turns out, were not really his, but ours. Go to Full Review Emma Donnelly Film Ireland Magazine Sep 4
It could be a filmmaker honing their craft, or the sheer wealth of documentation available for this subject, but Diego Maradona surpasses its two cinematic predecessors in terms of style and technical achievement. Go to Full Review Marcelo Paredes Cinencuentro 05/28/2025
...it's a classic rise-and-fall story, showing this period in Naples being the one that perfectly encapsulates everything football has meant during [Diego's] years in the media spotlight. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Connor Lightbody Live & Breathe Media (Substack) 07/19/2024
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We see the rise, fall, the seediness and the heart of Maradona, captured meticulously as a tortured love story between a man, a ball and his own mortality Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Stephen C @bob25009 07/08/2025 Real footage in 2 hours flat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In British English with American English subtitles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See more Tomas T @felipe_netrador 03/09/2025 Y EL PUEBLO GRITO MARADO'! MARADO'! See more Gareth v @geewah 06/23/2023 Brilliant doco on the playing career and personal life of the legend Diego Maradona during his time at Napoli. Great footage, a compelling story, along with clever direction and storytelling makes this one of the best sports docos in recent years. See more 06/26/2022 I think this is a very clear and unbiased film about the great myth that is Diego Maradona. He is a god in his own country and not only there. Despite that, people involved in the making of this film treated him as what he actually is (was) a human being. Very nice documentary. See more 08/19/2021 Understandably, Asif Kapdia's documentary is screened this weekend, a few days after we said goodbye to one of the best footballers of all time. And boy is it worth a watch. Kapadia has a terrific skill in drawing you into his films even if you have no interest in the subject matter. Despite having no interest in F1, Senna (2010) had me in pieces by the end, and it's without doubt one of the best documentaries of recent times. He repeated the feat with Amy (2015), and has perfected the style a third time with Diego Maradona, helped by some truly astonishing archive footage. Focusing on his time at Napoli rather than tackling a broader scope, this allows for incredible focus as well as pulling in other themes from his life and applying them to the Napoli years. It's terrific. See more 01/07/2021 A compelling documentary. Really shows the adoration of the man himself and the power that football has to shift the mindset of the community. The film focuses mostly on his time at Napoli and I had very little Idea about what happened when they signed him. Certainly worth a watch. It would have been better to also focus on Boca where he spent most of his career in. Anyway 10/10, great film. See more Read all reviews
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Asif Kapadia

Director

Diego Maradona

Actor

James Gay-Rees

Producer

Antônio Pinto

Music

Chris King

Film Editor

Paul Martin

Producer

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Movie Info

Director
Asif Kapadia
Producer
James Gay-Rees, Paul Martin
Production Co
Film 4, Lorton Entertainment, On The Corner Films Limited
Genre
Biography, Documentary
Original Language
British English
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 16, 2019
Runtime
2h 0m
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