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msn.com: A film about Maradona is being promoted in Cannes

msn.com May 20, 2008

Diego Maradona has tipped Manchester United to win the Champions League final. The Argentinian footballing legend was speaking at a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival, where a new documentary about him entitled Maradona is showing. He said both teams, due to play in Moscow, have... [read full story]

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Maradona, tortured genius on celluloid in Cannes (AFP)

yahoo.com May 19, 2008

AFP - Diego Maradona, star of Bosnian director Emir Kusturica's documentary to be released Tuesday at the Cannes Film Festival, was a footballing genius upon whom Argentina fans bestowed godlike status even before he starred in their 1986 World Cup success.

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Maradona, tortured genius on celluloid in Cannes

wspsoccer.com May 19, 2008

Diego Maradona, star of Bosnian director Emir Kusturica´s documentary to be released Tuesday at the Cannes Film Festival, was a footballing genius upon whom Argentina fans bestowed godlike status even before he starred in their 1986 World Cup success.

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CINEMA - FOOTBALL: Maradona, footballing genius and hero of documentary

france24.com May 19, 2008

Maradona, footballing genius and hero of documentary Diego Maradona, star of Bosnian director Emir Kusturica's documentary to be released Tuesday at the Cannes Film Festival, was a footballing genius upon whom Argentina fans bestowed godlike status. Diego Maradona, star of Bosnian director Emir...

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Tortured genius Maradona hits the big screen in Cannes (AFP)

yahoo.com May 20, 2008

CANNES, France (AFP) - Diego Maradona, the Argentinian soccer genius notorious for a "hand of God" goal and a post-football descent into drugs, hits the big screen in Cannes Tuesday in a documentary that also shows him as a staunch critic of the United States.

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Maradona lashes out at 'undignified' Pele (AFP)

yahoo.com May 20, 2008

CANNES, France (AFP) - Argentina's Diego Maradona, notorious for his drug-taking, warned fellow soccer icon Pele Tuesday to stop criticising him because he too had a "dark side" and had done things he wants kept secret. "He too has a dark side," Maradona said of Pele in Cannes after a press...

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Film shows the divine world of Diego Maradona - Feature

earthtimes.org May 20, 2008

Cannes, France - Sarajevo-born director Emir Kusturica's frank documentary about football legend Diego Maradona is as much about sport as it is about the highly-charged mixture of politics, religion and drugs. After bringing football glory to his hom...

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Maradona would cut off "Hand of God" for actress (Reuters)

yahoo.com May 20, 2008

CANNES, France (Reuters) - Argentinian soccer legend Diego Maradona said on Tuesday he would be prepared to cut off the hand that scored one of his most famous goals for a sight of film star Julia Roberts. Maradona, in Cannes to promote a new documentary about his life by Serbian film director...

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Tyson, Maradona tub-thump films

variety.com May 20, 2008

Web Exclusive: Both men fight personal demons in documentaries -- There are few more iconic names in the arena of world sport than former boxer Mike Tyson and soccer player Diego Maradona. Both men, who have fought personal demons including drug addiction came to Cannes to tub-thump separate...

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Maradona would cut off "Hand of God" for Julia Roberts (Reuters)

yahoo.com May 20, 2008

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Maradona receives godlike treatment in Cannes film (Reuters)

yahoo.com May 20, 2008

By James Mackenzie 30 minutes ago CANNES, France (Reuters) - Diego Maradona came to Cannes on Tuesday in a film that celebrates one of the most brilliant and wayward players in soccer history in a tone of near religious devotion. "Maradona by Kusturica" allowed Serbian director Emir Kusturica to...

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