

Constructed from over 500 hours of never-before-seen footage, this documentary centers on the personal life and career of the controversial football player Diego Maradona who played for SSC Napoli and Argentina in the 1980s.
Editing
Kapadia's collage technique—no talking heads, just pure immersion.
Direction
Turns sports doc into psychological horror and religious epic.
Production
The 500 hours of footage feel illegally intimate.

Director
Asif Kapadia
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kapadia's team found footage of Maradona's secret daughter before he publicly acknowledged her—the edit preserves this chronological dissonance.
In Naples, Maradona remains a patron saint; the annual 'Maradona Day' pilgrimage to his mural proves the film's thesis about myth outliving the man.
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