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
Diego Maradona
Self (voice)
Pelé
Self (archive footage)
Dalma Maradona
Self, Maradona daughter (archive footage)
Daniel Arcucci
Self, sport journalist (archive footage)
Alberto Bigon
Self, SSC Napoli Former Coach (voice)
Gonzalo Bonadeo
Self, sport journalist (voice)
Corrado Ferlaino
Self, SSC Napoli Former President (archive footage)
Ciro Ferrara
Self, SSC Napoli Former Player (voice)
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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