Zanetti Story

Dock Sud Story, a short story about Javier Zanetti, captain from Buenos Aires

Zanetti Story

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Enormous Films

2014

78"

“A man with no excesses, but with a story bordering on myth”. This is how Argentinian poet Albino Guaròn defines Javier Zanetti, one of the last symbols of global football. Albino Guaròn is one of the most mysterious and fascinating authors in global literature, and he decided to dedicate his last novel to Javier Zanetti. Javier’s life is told through poetic words and fragments inspired by Guaròn’s works, but also from the voices of his teammates, coaches, from journalists and show business celebrities, from José Mourinho to Lionel Messi, from Gad Lerner to Fiorello, from Sandro Mazzola to Roberto Baggio. In 1995, when Zanetti was still a boy, he left Buenos Aires to go play in Europe, in FC Inter. He quickly becomes one of the most beloved players for his fans and most esteemed adversary from opposite teams. As the years go by and high end players pass through FC Inter without ever winning anything, Zanetti keeps training and fighting everyday with the same strength he had in the beginning, when he was still a child and he was told he was too delicate and frail to play professional football. To get to his late 30s, to Madrid and to the magic night of the historical treble, when he did what no other captain had managed to do in the entire history of Inter, by winning the treble.

director: Carlo A. Sigon e Simone Scafidi
script: Carlo A. Sigon, Simone Scafidi, Rudi Ghedini
production: Enormous Film, Luchino Visconti di Modrone
executive producer: Claudia Amendola
DOP: Patrizio Saccò, Ivan Marasco, Sebastian Sarraute
editing: Fabio Capalbo, Michela Menichelli
music: Riccardo Cammalleri, Angelo G. Mauro
sound: Lorenzo Dal Ri
ditribution: Nexo Digital
with: Javier Zanetti, Albino Guaròn, José Mourinho, Lionel Messi, Roberto Baggio, Fiorello, Paula Della Fuente, Michele Serra, Beppe Severgnini, Gad Lerner, Massimo Moratti, Esteban Cambiasso, Ivan Ramiro Cordoba, Sebastián Rambert, Sandro Mazzola, Giuseppe Bergomi

⁠“Javier Zanetti: Captain from Buenos Aires is a documentary made for the playfield and of a far-away land, the one where the history of this champion began, told by a first-time witness. In the Argentinian capital, Carlo Sigon and Simone Scafidi have given a voice to the famous writer Albino Guaròn, a blind writer who loves football, a game he knows thanks to the palms of his hands, where he asks friends and relatives to draw the plays of every game.”

Movieplayer

“What does poetry have to do with today’s football? Where crowds of fans destroy Bernini’s masterpieces, fight and kill at the stadiums, where you steal, bribe and sell out the game results? Well, in the movie made by two young and original directors from Milan, Carlo A. Sigon and Simone Scafidi, Zanetti Story, introduces us to a whole new football: one that is poetic, true, competitive, surreal and ancient. Today, the world of football doesn’t seem to have the same attributes as this Javier Zanetti biopic, it goes to show a not-so-recent past in which dreams, sacrifice and goodwill, as well as extreme humility, have turned the milkboy who got up every morning at 3AM to do his deliveries, into the champion he is today.”

Mymovies

“Javier Zanetti’s story, as told by this documentary directed by Carlo A. Sigon and Simone Scafidi, seems to be the story of a “normal” champion, but is instead one of a different superhero…
Filming to have fun, always with a camera in hand you can dig deeper into your subject’s secrets than you would by betting on a fruitless hagiography. The real story telling magician is an Argentinian writer, extraordinary charmer and as every south American realist, a bit magical and mysterious, such as Albino Guaròn, who dribbles with every initial perplexity of the non-ultras Inter fans: “What does it take to write a book about Che Guevara or Jesus Christ? What kind of creativity do you have to have to do a movie about Diego Maradona?” and the Captain’s original discretion gets behind his words, a captain who is always modest.”

Roberto Silvestri

“Record-breaking results yesterday in the movie theatres for Zanetti Story. The movie has placed first in the box office, gaining 50 thousands viewers”

Sentieri Selvaggi