Serbian director to shoot Maradona movie
BELGRADE: An acclaimed Serbian director, Emir Kusturica, is set to start work on a film expected to “rediscover” the controversial football great, Diego Maradona, the Belgrade daily Vecernje Novostio reported yesterday.
“It will be a complex film,” said the Bosnian-born Kusturica. “I’ll use a lot of documentary material, of course not that produced by the tabloids.”
He added that the project had nothing to do with the “atmosphere of lynch” created by the “cruel tabloids” around Maradona, but with his “unfulfilled desire for family harmony”.
“Maradona is a master of scandal, but that doesn’t mean he should be lynched ... that depresses what’s good in him and there is plenty of that,” Kusturica said.
The shooting will open at Maradona’s daughter's birthday party next month in Buenos Aires. The film crew will also travel to Naples, Barcelona and Cuba, where Maradona went through “crucial moments”.
Kusturica has directed movies that were awarded at festivals in Cannes, Berlin and Venice.
The years of Maradona’s brilliant domination in world football were also marred by scandals linked to substance abuse. – dpa
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