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May 10, 2016 · It may be called Pelé: Birth of a Legend, but Jeff and Michael Zimbalist‘s film is really about Ginga soccer and Brazil at risk of losing its soul.The climax depicts the 1958 World Cup with the country’s unexpected run to the final on the back of a seventeen year-old hobbled by a sprained knee, but it’s not his goal scoring that inspires confidence.
Pele's meteoric rise from the slums of Sao Paulo to leading Brazil to its first World Cup victory at the age of 17 is chronicled in this biographical drama. Rating. PG.
Watch Pele: Birth of a Legend (2016) free starring Kevin de Paula, Leonardo Lima Carvalho, Seu Jorge and directed by Jeff Zimbalist.
May 12, 2016 · 1h 47m. By Nicolas Rapold. May 12, 2016. In Jeff and Michael Zimbalist’s footballer biopic, “Pelé: Birth of a Legend,” we are endlessly told of the importance of what is known in Portuguese ...
Apr 25, 2016 · Brazilian soccer icon Pelé was legendary not simply for his transcendent ability on the field, but for his unbridled effusiveness. As such, what makes writer-directors Jeff and Michael Zimbalist’s Pele: Birth of a Legend so profoundly disappointing isn’t so much its embrace of the usual sports-movie clichés, among them the endless platitudes masquerading as wisdom, than its conspicuous absence of joy.
Synopsis. Under guidance from manager Vicente Feola (Vincent D'Onofrio), young (just 17 years of age) Pelé (Kevin De Paula) utilizes his street football skills to lead Brazil to the World Cup in 1958 in Sweden, against the reigning Olympic champions Soviets. Brazil was lucky to qualify, has mixed race team and injuries to boot as it entered ...
May 13, 2016 · Pelé. A name known around the world, a sports legend who changed soccer forever, and a national hero who carried the hopes and dreams of a country on his back. But before he was an icon, he was a kid from the slums of São Paulo, Brazil, so poor that he couldn’t afford a real soccer ball.
