Maradona '86

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Short Documentaries
Old Town Playhouse Sat, Aug 2, 2014 12:00 PM
Sponsored by: Williams Chevrolet, Inc.
Featuring the top award-winning documentaries from Sundance and Tribeca, these eight powerful shorts include “One Year Lease,” a cautionary tale about renting an apartment in New York City, told through the voicemail messages of the tenants’ cat-loving landlady; “A Hole in the Sky,” a stirring portrait of life for a young woman in rural Somalia; “The Silly Bastard Next to the Bed,” a stranger-than-fiction account of one of the funniest phone calls ever made from the Oval Office during the Kennedy administration (it would make an excellent script for an episode of “Veep”); and tailor-made for the summer of the World Cup final, “Maradona ’86,” which tells the fascinating story of a controversial soccer icon.
Film Info
Section:Shorts
Release Year:2014
Runtime:22 min.
Production Country:UK
USA
Original Language:English
Spanish
French
Cast/Crew Info
Director:Sam Blair
Produced by:John Battsek

Description

In the 1986 World Cup, Diego Armando Maradona redefined what was possible for one man to accomplish on the soccer pitch, writing an indelible history with his feet and an infamous “hand from God.” Maradona ’86 is a fascinating, evocative, and operatic portrait of Maradona’s inner complexity and contradictions and the joy of his performance on the pitch.

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