Bill Elliott wrote: > John Huston's VICTORY seems to me the best use of soccer as the > basis of a mainstream "Hollywood" film. But did it have theatrical release (on a significant scale) in Europe? If not, it would still confirm my impression that in Europe there is no place in film for soccer-heroes. The one or two titles that were mentioned could still be the proverbial exeption. Arnte Maaso wrote: > This is probalbly when it comes to fiction films. A few > documentaries are produced, though. For instance a popular and > well directed danish documentary called "Laudrup", about the > danish star Michael Laudrup. Right now a Norwegian documentary > about Erik "Myggen" (mosquito) Myggland is about to be released > in Norway, not only for television, but (as far as I know) also > to be shown in theatres around Norway. I did have fiction films in mind, but maybe I could add documentaries with theatrical release to my list as well. And speaking of soccer-documentaries, I would like to mention (and not just for chauvinistic reasons) the Dutch documentary SOLO, DE WET VAN DE FAVELA (Solo, the Law of the Favela), a beautiful portrait of two talented soccer-kids in the slums of Rio the Janeiro. And Ulf Dalquist added: > The only film I can think that's clearly a soccer saga is one > whose name and director escapes me for the moment. However it's > african (can't remember country either) and is called something > like THE GOLDEN BALL. THE GOLDEN BALL (Le ballon d'or) by Cheik Doukoure is from Guinea. I fine soccer-film indeed. Which alltogether still leaves me curious about soccer in Latin- American films. Any South-American Screen-member out there? Leo Bankersen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [log in to unmask] ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]