This October 30 it will be remembered that 61 years ago one of the geniuses of football was born who is still remembered for his quality.
The movie life of the sports idol Diego Maradona, between heaven and hell, between glory and death, is reflected in the series’Blessed Dream‘, a production premiered in Argentina and available on Friday around the world on a video-on-demand platform.
The first of the ten chapters, entitled ‘Promise‘, tells stories of the iconic former captain of the Albiceleste world champion in Mexico-1986, with their dramatic contrasts, on the eve of massive tributes for his birth, on October 30, 1960, almost a year after his death on a sickbed, on November 25, 2020.
In a parallel montage, you can see in the fiction the child prodigy who was at the age of 9, the one who related to a camera his dream of being world champion, and the retired soccer player who at 40, for addictions, he suffers his first cardiorespiratory attack that puts him on the brink of death in the Uruguayan resort of Punta del Este.
The series is a blockbuster by BTF Media, associated with Dhana Media and Latin We, which broadcasts Amazon Prime Video and which premiered on free-to-air television channel 9, with a maximum audience of 8.8 points, second in a program with 14.1 points from the local television leader Telefé, according to Real Time Rating.
“To understand it is to understand the political, social and economic context that he lived through,” he told AFP. actor Juan Palomino, who plays the adult Maradona, whose legend grew almost as much as he sank into alcohol and drugs with a turbulent love life.
The context cited by Palomino alludes to the birth in a ‘misery village’ (settlement) and the repression of the dictatorship (1976-83), even with a scene in which the young Maradona you are about to be arrested as a suspect at a military checkpoint.
“Sueño Bendito” plunges into politics, reflecting Maradona’s Peronist identity (currently the ruler), which did not prevent him from admiring leftist leaders such as the Che Guevara, Fidel Castro or Hugo Chávez.
Despite the epic tone of the series, there is an attempt to immerse oneself in the intimacy of the ex-footballer at times, without forgetting his purest passions and volcanic loves.
“Lived that deep loneliness, the one that I do not wish on anyone. I think that’s the key, ”says Palomino, at the presentation party at the Argentinos Juniors stadium, where he made his first debut at just 15 years old.
In the context is the birthplace of Villa Fiorito (southern periphery), which has just been declared a National Heritage. “I was born in a private neighborhood … deprived of electricity, gas, food, of everything ”, joked the ‘Pelusa’, with his proverbial wit.
Maradonian love
“I am a re-maradoniano (fan), I love Diego. I got up at six in the morning to see him at the youth team (U-20 world champion in Japan-1979) ”, he says. Jean Pierre Noher, who plays the second attorney-in-fact and representative of Maradona, Guillermo Cóppola, whom the series does not leave very well for allegedly delaying medical assistance in his first health crisis.
His second home is also a real location: the house on Lascano Street, in the lower-middle-class, working-class neighborhood of La Paternal, bought by Argentinos Juniors.
At the front door, Maradona meets who will be his girlfriend and only wife: Claudia Villafañe, coincidentally a neighbor across the street.
The Argentine press points out that the production had the approval of Maradona and the questioning of Villafañe, who gave him his first two daughters, Dalma and Gianinna.
The entire family of the idol is engaged in judicial bidding. One of them is the investigation for alleged malpractice and medical malpractice in the death of his father almost a year ago and another for the rights to use the Maradona trademark.
The legend does not rest in peace, but it revives on the screens. (D)
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