Diego Maradona (2019)
Rebel. Hero. Hustler. God.
Director: Asif Kapadia
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.
Where to watch
HBO Max Amazon Channel
HBO Max
Trailer
Director
Asif Kapadia
Cast
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) 
John Foot
Self, historian (voice)
Giannina Maradona
Self, Maradona daughter (archive footage)
Diego Maradona Jr.
Self, Maradona son (archive footage)
Maria Rosa Maradona
Self, Maradona sister (voice) User Reviews (2)
**_A fitting tribute to perhaps the greatest of all time - in all his genius, sagacity, hedonism, and excess_** > _My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me._ - Diego Maradona > _In Argentine football there is a before and after Maradona._ - Julio Grondona > _What Zidane can do with a football, Maradona could do with an orange._ - Michel Platini > _Even if I played for a million years, I'd never come close to Maradona. Not that I'd want to anyway. He's the greatest there's ever been._ - Lionel Messi > _I was, I am, and_ _I always will be a drug addict. A person who gets involved in drugs has to fight it every day._ - Diego Maradona In _Senna_ (2010), director Asif Kapadia essentially established a new style of documentary filmmaking - using only archive footage, with no talking heads, playing the interviews…
I think the fact that we have such an astonishing amount of library footage of this legendary footballer actually goes some way to explaining just what caused his downfall. From his very first games at Boca in Argentina through his more static career at Barcelona and then his meteoric performances that catapulted the lacklustre Napoli to two Serie A titles and an UEFA Cup victory, we follow him with a fairly comprehensive video-critique of his life. Naples was a city in a bit of despair. It had suffered from a decline in investment and in it's traditional industries and it's football club had languished at the wrong end of the league for decades. No sooner had he taken to the pitch then they managed to make into the top half, and then to a title that saw the city paralysed with joy and celebration and his status assume something akin to the godlike. He redefines the word adulation, and i…
