Art Alert: Film about famed footballer 'Diego Maradona' comes to Alexandria

Ahram Online , Sunday 10 Nov 2019

The film about the iconic footballer was screened in Cairo and will be re-screened in Alexandria as part of the ongoing 12th Panorama of the European Film

Diego Maradona
(Photo: still from film Diego Maradona)

Directed by Asif Kapadia, the documentary film Diego Maradona will screen in Zawya Alexandria on Friday 15 November.

The film is screened within the ongoing Panorama of the European Film which kicked off on 6 November and continues until 16 November. Check the Cairo programme here.

The biography of the famed footballer was already screened in Cairo twice.

The film's cast includes  Diego Armando Maradona, Pelé, Claudia Villafañe.

According to IMDb, the documentary is "constructed from over 500 hours of never-before-seen footage."

Programme:

Friday 15 November, 6.30pm
Zawya Alexandria, Cinema Amir, corner of Fouad street and Safeya Zaghloul street, Raml Station, Alexandria

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