If it were a game and she would be the big winner, because not only one of the greatest singers in the history of music but someone who, out of love, sacrificed herself to try to cure a sick genius of an insidious disease, alcoholism.
The four-chapter series on Globoplay, authored and directed by Caroline Zilberman, is one of the most beautiful and cruel documents about the legendary Elza Soares and the immortal Mané Garrincha.
It was not enough to recover historical scenes of him on the lawns and hers on the stage, the documentary is a parade of testimonies that brings together other geniuses of the race such as Chico Buarque de Holanda, according to her essential in the life of the couple in Italian exile, and Caetano Veloso, both at their feet. of the black woman who never bowed down to all the suffering she heroically faced.
There is also a formidable table between two columnists of this sheetZeca Camargo, author of the biography, “Elza”, by Leya, and Ruy Castro, who wrote “Estrela Solitário, um Brasileiro Chamado Garrincha”, by Companhia das Letras.
Elza left, aged 91, on January 20, 2022, precisely 39 years after Garrincha’s death, at 49.
The two met and missed each other in a mad life, from the highest point that two human beings can reach to the worst of the depths, scarred by the cruel deaths of her mother, victim of his drinking, and their son.
José Trajano is also in the doc with his verve and sensitivity, a deep connoisseur of music and football, in a script by Rafael Pirrho, which does not allow the viewer to detach himself from the screen even for a second of the approximately 200 minutes at the height. of the couple whose story is told with tenderness and truth, without compromise.
From the unmissable miniseries is the confirmation, never to be doubted, about who was important to whom.
Mané Garrincha owes Elza not only what she did good for him but also the harm she caused him, a genius who dodged everything and everyone, except the alcohol sickness that he got used to taking since he was ten years old.
Elza, daughter of hunger as she introduced herself to Ary Barroso, fell and turned around countless times.
Mané reached the highest point in the world of football between 1957 and 1962, when he was a three-time champion for Botafogo in 1957, 1961 and 1962 and a two-time world champion for the Brazilian team, in 1958, when he haunted the planet in Sweden, and in 1962, in Chile. , when carrying the team, without Pelé, on his back.
He played 60 games with the yellow shirt, came out victorious 52 times and defeated only once, in the 1966 World Cup, in England, when he was already in frank decline, from which he would not recover.
Elza Soares was persecuted by the Brazilian dictatorship to the point that she had to leave the country and, in 1999, she was elected, in a vote carried out by the BBC in London, the Voice of the Millennium.
Red card
Speaking of José Trajano, know the rare reader and the rare reader who, starting this Tuesday (8), always at 3 pm, live, will premiere on Grupo Folha’s UOL Channel, the Red Card program, successor to the historic Green Card from TV Cultura, with Trajano and this one who writes to you, space to talk about football, politics and culture, because everything mixes, and also available on the main podcast platforms.
Anyone who knows and likes us knows what to expect and will be very welcome.
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