Pelé: Birth of a Legend

Name: Pelé: Birth of a Legend
Genre: Drama
Released: 2016-05-06T00:00:00.000Z
Rating: 7.3

About Pelé: Birth of a Legend

The life story of Brazilian football legend, Pele.

Pelé: Birth of a Legend (2016) is a drama film directed by Jeff Zimbalist and Michael Zimbalist. Its themes are football (soccer), brazil, biography, and sports.

Kevin de Paula takes the lead as Pelé, Leonardo Lima Carvalho as Younger Pelé, Seu Jorge as Dondinho, and Milton Gonçalves as Waldemar de Brito. It runs 107 minutes and was released in May 2016.

The screenplay is by Jeff Zimbalist and Michael Zimbalist. In the United States it streams on AMC+ Amazon Channel, Philo, and Sundance Now.

Eddie the Eagle, Bleed for This, and The Damned United make useful companions to Pelé: Birth of a Legend, all filed under inspirational. TMDB voters put it at 7.3 out of 10 across 1,172 votes and it carries a PG rating.