Diego Maradona

Synopsis

Wrapping up his trio of insightful documentaries on iconic figures, Asif Kapadia sets his sights on looking at the career of renowned Argentinian football player Diego Maradona. Carefully knitting together segments of footage from over 500 hours of never-seen-before archive film from Maradona's own collection, this documentary invites us to really understand his life and his God-like status on and off the pitch, and the time spent in Naples that ended up defining his career in the beautiful game.