Maradona doc premieres at Cannes

(ANSA) - Cannes, May 20 - A documentary on Diego Maradona's heady Napoli years including two scudetti and the 1986 World Cup win in 1986 premiered at Cannes Monday wowing critics and public alike.
    Oscar winning British director Asif Kapadia's doc, titled simply Diego Maradona, is based on 500 hours of previously unseen footage by two cameramen who followed him in his new career in Naples as "new gladiator", the filmmaker said.
    "Faced with some of his goals people said 'Maradona didn't score them, God did," he said.
    The film spans July 5, 1984, when Napoli bought Maradona risking bankruptcy, through the two glorious Serie titles in 1987 and 1990, and struggles with cocaine, relations with the Camorra, children born out of his marriage to Claudia, a raft of scandals, wiretaps and prostitutes. It ends on the "night of mistakes" when Maradona led Argentina past Italy in the World Cup semifinals at the San Paolo, with most Neapolitan fans rooting for the Pibe de Oro rather than their country.