19° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Italian Spottings 2001
«NON SARÒ MAI UN UOMO COMUNE». MARADONA E LA SUA VITA
Country: Italy
Year: 2001
Duration: 67'
In this film Diego Maradona blows off some steam for a long time on one of those nights of his life when his greatness and the contradictions of his existence seemed more intolerable than ever. The occasion was offered during 2001 by Milly Carlucci's invitation for him to appear on a RAI television program. What set him off was not this invitation as much as the welcome that he was given at the airport by a group of uniformed Treasury Ministry police who had been ordered to notify him of an injunction for him to pay 50,000,000 lire, mostly in back taxes. Maradona's is a life that is special and exaggerated. Even when he would have done without this life, it has become an intolerable weight for him, a kind of anguish for the ex-champion who is now very vulnerable.
"I Will Never Be a Common Man comes out of Maradona's ability to take on issues courageously and consciously that are not only about soccer but are human, social, and political. These are themes that could not be approached by champions like Totti, Del Piero, Zidane, and Figo, who have surely taken his place in the imaginations of soccer fans all over the world. Maradona's capacity is even more dramatic because he has the greatest soccer player of the century - first of all, on the playing field" (Gianni Min`).
Biography
film director
Gianni Minà
Gianni Minà (Turin, 1938) began his career as sportswriter in 1959 at Tuttosport. In 1960 he began to work for RAI, where he worked on programs such as Sprint, Tv7, AZ, Servizi speciali del TG, Dribbling, Odeon, Gulliver, and Mixer. He co-founded L'altra domenica with Maurizio Barendson and Renzo Arbore. In 1976 he was hired by the television Tg2 directed by Andrea Barbato. In 1981 he debuted as director and host of the program, Blitz. His other television programs include Alta Classe, Zona Cesarini, Un mondo nel pallone, Ieri, oggi… domani? , Te voglio bene assaje, and Storie. As a writer he has for years contributed to "Repubblica", "Unità", "Corriere della Sera" and "Manifesto". From 1996 to 1998 he was director of Tuttosport. One of his non-fiction books, Continente desaparecido, became the title of a series of books on Latin America published by Sperling & Kupfer. At present he edits and directs the literary review, "Latinoamerica e tutti i sud del mondo".
FILMOGRAFIA
Storie del jazz (1971), Muhammad Alì - Una storia americana (1979), Facce piene di pugni (storia della boxe) (1985, co-regia Gianpiero Ricci), Il racconto di Fidel (1987), Fidel racconta il Che (1987), Fidel (1990), Storia di Rigoberta (1992), Viaggio con il Che (Alberto Granado racconta la traversata in motociletta dell'America latina con Ernesto Guevara) (1993), Il Che 25 anni dopo (Pombo e Urbano sopravvisuti al Che in Bolivia raccontano la sua epopea) (1993), La verità di Silvia (storia di Silvia Baraldini) (1994), Marcos e l'insurrezione zapatista (1994), Immagini dal Chiapas (incontro con Marcos nella selva Lacandona) (1996), Aqui estamos (la lunga marcia dei comandanti zapatisti da La Realidad a Città del Messico) (2001), «Non sarò mai un uomo comune» - Maradona e la sua vita (2001).
Cast
& Credits
Director and screenplay: Gianni Min`.
Collaborazione: Marco Militello.
Ricerche cinematografiche: Marco Padula.
Director of photography: Fabrizio Stinellis.
Editor: Giacomo Desideri.
Cast: Diego Armando Maradona.
Production company: GME Produzioni, via Marsciano 7, 00135 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-35072557.
Collaborazione: Marco Militello.
Ricerche cinematografiche: Marco Padula.
Director of photography: Fabrizio Stinellis.
Editor: Giacomo Desideri.
Cast: Diego Armando Maradona.
Production company: GME Produzioni, via Marsciano 7, 00135 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-35072557.