Pelé: The Unknown King (2017)
Genre : Documentary
Runtime : 39M
Director : Ernesto Rodrigues
Synopsis
Surprising stories, preserved in foreign archives, from the debut of the prodigy boy at the World Cup in 58 until the farewell in New York, with Pelé's on the field and outside the “four lines” filmed by foreigners in Brazil, Europe, the Americas and the Oceania.
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