Released four years after the Brazilian national team’s 1970 World Cup victory, this documentary follows the goals, glory and life of Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known to the world as Pelé, the greatest soccer player of the 20th century.
Produced and directed by Luiz Carlos Barreto, the film was painstakingly assembled from hours of footage culled from the Rede Globo and Canal 100 newsreel archives with the assistance of famed Cinema Novo editor Eduardo Escorel. Presented in a new 2K restoration.
DIRECTED BY LUIZ CARLOS BARRETO
BRAZIL | 1974 | PORTUGUESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
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