Prime Video documentary on Carletto Mazzone

Prime Video presents Come un Padre, the docufilm directed by Alessio Di Cosimo about the life and career of historic football coach Carletto Mazzone. Produced by 102 Distribution, Well Enough Film and CD Cine Dubbing, a story with exclusive testimonies of the samples discovered by ‘Er Sor Magara’.

Carletto Mazzone, known as “Er Sor Magara”, has trained champions who have distinguished themselves on the international scene. Born in 1937, he still holds the Serie A bench record today, with 795 official appearances. Talents such as Roberto Baggio, Andrea Pirlo, Marco Materazzi, Claudio Ranieri and Francesco Totti trained with him.

To pay tribute to the career and life of this historic coach, Prime Video presents Come un Padre. A docufilm directed by Alessio Di Cosimo and produced by 102 Distribution, Well Enough Film and CD Cine Dubbing.

like a father

Come un Padre is written by Alessio Di Cosimo himself, Alessandra Kre, Francesco Trento, in collaboration with Iole Mazzone, actress and nephew of Carletto. The docufilm tells both the man and the coach, an insight into the personal life and career, with all the footballing exploits of one of the last representatives of “romantic football”, the one who no longer exists today. today. A story through the testimonies of the family and the champions who were trained at his “school”, those who today can be defined as his “adopted” children. A story that wants to pay tribute to the man who, with his humanity, his passion and his way of doing things, remained etched in the minds of champions such as Materazzi, Pirlo, Totti, but also in the hearts of ordinary people; and that beyond the color of football flags.

Andrea Pirlo on the set of Come un Padre

Like a father, he retraces the memories of some of the greatest footballers on the world stage: Roberto Baggio, Pep Guardiola, Francesco Totti, Andrea Pirlo, Marco Materazzi, but also Claudio Ranieri, Giuseppe Giannini, Dario Hubner, Giovanni Galli, Massimiliano Cappioli . , Beppe Signori , Enrico Nicolini, Fabio Petruzzi, Luigi Di Biagio, Roberto Muzzi, the twins Antonio and Emanuele Filippini. Everyone talks about his relationship with ‘Er Sor Magara’, with this coach who for everyone was a bit “like a father”. A story that also tells the private and family life of Carletto Mazzone, thanks to the story of his son Massimo and his niece Iole.

When in football coaches mattered more than prosecutors

As noted in the memo that launches the docufilm available on Prime Video from November 2, 2022, the makers said: “This film wants to tell us about the football of old, it’s true. A football where prosecutors still mattered little and where coaches like Er Sor Magara were on the contrary true mentors, fathers, masters for their players. Who protected you, guided you. They shaped your career, but above all, at the same time, they directed your life”. As the authors continue: “Guardiola, Totti, Baggio, Pirlo, Materazzi and the others: Mazzone made them become men, he made them grow. He was a second father for them. A man whose they learned not only tactics or technique, but above all how to be in the world of football and beyond. They learned humanity, empathy, respect”.

Claudio Ranieri and Luigi Di Biagio from the set of Come un Padre

“And that’s what the great champions who crossed his path tell us – they conclude –: what men they have become, thanks to Carlo Mazzone. What about this relationship that they transferred into the relationship with their children”. Come un Padre is produced with photography by Giuseppe Chessa, the editing is by Lorenzo Muto. The original music by Paolo Costa and in the soundtrack there is Stella by Antonello Venditti, Maledetto Tempo by Franco126 and Stadium by Oscar Prudente, the famous theme song of the Domenica Sprint program.