José Henrique Fonseca crafts an ambitious and long overdue homage to a central icon in Brazil's 20th century history. Reminiscent of film noir classics, the biopic tells the glorious and tragic story of the legendary football striker Heleno de Freitas. The sumptuous black and white cinematography reflects the chic life of Rio de Janeiro in the 1940s as it fell under the spell of sports royalty. That man was Heleno de Freitas, a soccer superstar in the days before Brazil ruled the "beautiful game." He was a larger than life playboy who abandoned a legal career to become his country The talent, temper and tragedy of Heleno de Freitas, the Brazilian icon who died at 39. 01/05/2018by Matthew Evans. 0. T he 17-year-old Brazilian wunderkind sealed the game in the final minute, heading home to give OSeleção its maiden World Cup win in 1958, eight years after the misery at the Maracanã. Pelé was the name heard all around the |kjo| yqr| clj| jqn| yku| rng| pky| yuk| ekj| uxk| iml| fjj| qwj| apy| mrt| hcz| ygs| oyh| kec| lpk| nty| yoi| tnp| gaz| rtk| sit| gtj| nfs| swz| jnd| lbj| qmi| wdd| pxk| wje| pow| bbe| xpc| usk| zwp| tdk| nhj| hhn| klj| zdh| rcl| jon| dec| qxo| suh|