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Riddle: who was Hugo Sofovich's assistant director in
I break the rating, a
film starring Jorge Porcel and Moria Casán that premiered in April 1981?
Juan José Campanella, yes, himself.
Produced by Aries, the cast
also featured Juan Alberto Mateyko, Javier Portales, Camila Perissé, César Bertrand and Luisa Albinoni
, among other stellar figures.
The film also had the "gentle collaboration" of Diego Armando Maradona, who at that time was already shining in Argentinos Juniors:
in 1980 he had scored four goals against Hugo Gatti, from Boca, after the goalkeeper tried to "chubby".
What was it about
I break the rating
?
To harm Channel 8 television, Channel 4, its rival station, "infiltrates" Porcel (in the role of "Jorge Fetuccini"), whom it considers to be "inept."
Moria Casán, Jorge Porcel, Fernando Siro and Elvia Andreoli, in "I break the rating".
However, “Fetuccini”, which appears by mistake in all the programs, ends up becoming a success with the audience, as could be, why not,
Floricienta or MasterChef Celebrity.
"What's your name?" They ask Porcel's character at one point.
"Jorge Fetuccini, but everyone calls me an idiot."
Channel 8's programming manager was Javier Portales, in the role of “Bochini”.
And he comes up with an idea: for “Fetuccini” to go out to make “sensationalist” notes, “with a hook”, along with Moria Casán, in this case “Moria Gutié”, as a cameraman.
The real Maradona, in 1980, playing for Argentinos, against Fillol, from River.
Now we are on the Argentinos court, in Juan Agustín García and Boyacá, in the stadium that stands out for having a wall behind one of the arches, with the danger that the ball will go to the street.
Maradona dribbles one, two, three, four, five rivals, including the goalkeeper.
When he is about to define - when he is about to give a pass to the net, César Luis Menotti-, he is stopped by "Fetuccini" who, with a red jacket, in tune with the clothing of the Bichitos de La Paternal, asks Pelusa : "Diego, exclusively for Channel 8. Do you think this could be the best goal of your career?"
"I think so," Ten replies.
"How many players did he dribble?"
"Four or five and the goalkeeper."
Desperate, seeing that Diego does not make the goal, the Argentine coach yells at him from the substitute bench:
“Maradona, what are you doing?
Put it in! ”.
No, it is not that easy.
Diego continues to be held back by “Fetuccini”, who insists: “Diego, you know that if you score this goal, your team wins the championship for the first time”.
"Yes, yes, that's why, let me make the goal and then we continue talking."
"One last question: who do you intend to dedicate this goal to?"
"I don't know, let me think about it ...", The coach gets furious: "Kick it, Diego, they'll take it from you."
Y?
Nothing.
"Fetuccini" insists with Maradona: "Is he going to dedicate it to his mother or does he have a girlfriend?"
"Well, not girlfriend, the girl I'm dating ... But let me score the goal and then we'll keep talking."
"Do not leave all the people of Channel 8 with the thorn. What girl do you mean?"
I break your rating
There, then,
the rival goalkeeper takes the ball from Diego.
"But go, because of you they took it from me!", The crack gets angry.
"Well, it doesn't matter ... Now explain to the public how you lost the best goal of your life."
It was not the only "note" from "Fetuccini" that broke rating records.
There was more, like when the chronicler asked a man (César Bertrand) who was about to commit suicide by jumping off the balcony: "Sir, why do you want to commit suicide?"
"Because my wife ran away with my partner."
"Then let your partner go."
It was another era, of course, and cinema was made under a paradigm that today would be questioned.
Juan Alberto Mateyko also collaborated on the film.
"In the film, I played Juan Alberto Mateyko,"
Juan Alberto Mateyko tells
Clarín
.
“He was the host of a question and answer program in which 'Jorge Fetuccini' participated… Hugo (for Sofovich) asked me if I could collaborate and I said yes, of course.
Being in the movie was something that amused me.
Also, it didn't take me long: it was two or three days of filming.
And I even wore the same clothes that I used to work with in real life, except for the scene where they asked me to wear a bow tie. "
Regarding Maradona's participation in the film, Mateyko comments: “Like me, Diego enjoyed being part of
Te break the rating
.
It was a movie for the whole family, with Porcel, Moria… They were superstars, like Susana, Olmedo… Very popular figures, who made movies, television, theater magazines.
Theaters were packed to see those movies.
The same thing happened with the films of Palito Ortega, Sandro…
It didn't take Diego long to film the scene he shared with Porcel either.
And he didn't even have to move: they took the cameras to the Argentinos court, and that's it.
Those were other times, of course ”.
Then, Juan Alberto refers to his relationship with the former captain of the Argentine National Team: “With Diego, I always got along very well.
What's more, in December 1979, he had just won the Youth World Cup.
So I invited him to my program on Channel 13,
Una Terraza al Mar
, which was held at the Provincial Hotel in Mar del Plata.
I added him to the jury in the preselection of Miss Siete Díaz.
Diego had a great time.
So much so that instead of one day, as planned, he stayed for two.
He was already an impressive idol.
At one point we went out for a walk on the beach and the amount of people who approached him was incredible…
After that, he never had problems doing interviews with me, like when he had just signed a contract with Barcelona. "
Juan José Campanella was Hugo Sofovich's assistant director.
At the age of 20, Sofovich's assistant was Campanella. “It was my first job,” recalls the director,
who in 2010 won the Oscar for
The Secret in Their Eyes
.
“I had a baby face, I looked like 15 years old… A nude scene was filmed.
Moria saw that I was shy, back there ... Then he came with all his splendor ... And he asked me: 'Juan, doy Canela?
Am I a middle-class housewife? '
The one who always remembers Porcel, too, is Maradona.
In 2016, for example, when the AFA had endless comings and goings to hire the National Team coach, Diego compared:
"The casting to choose the next DT is a film by Olmedo and Porcel."
Two years later, when Conmebol decided that the final of the Copa Libertadores between Boca and River would be played at the Bernabéu stadium in Madrid, Maradona attacked: to want to teach football.
And that Chiqui Tapia, who has more double chin than fat Porcel, is going to talk about football. "
I break your rating
was not the only time that Maradona was part of the production of a movie.
A year earlier, in 1980, he had already appeared in
¡Qué linda es mi familia!
, a comedy with Luis Sandrini, Niní Marshall, Palito Ortega and the Golden Triplets, among others.
Sandrini, “the Old Man”, is the president of a “neighborhood club”.
One morning, he goes to his team's training session and meets Maradona, "the young promise", to whom he assures that he is not going to sell it.
And that, in any case, "after the World Cup", he will be able to choose what to do with his career.
"Che, Diego, the ball is running that they are going to sell you,"
a curly Adrián Domenech, a colleague of Argentinos, tells Maradona.
"There is the president ... Why don't you ask him?"
Wearing a red shirt and blue shorts, Diego approaches Sandrini.
"How are you, kid, how are those tabas?", Asks the president, more folksy than ever, in a beret and scarf.
"Well, and you?", Maradona follows.
"To the hair, at any time I put on the 9 and I go out to do the pair with you."
"What is the truth that they are going to sell me?"
“As long as I'm at the club, you don't go.
I will sign that for you ”.
“Thank you, President!
I never want to leave the neighborhood.
Here I have my friends, my family ... ”.
“I know, as I also know that you are going to become a world star.
When that moment comes, don't forget what you just said, your friends and your family. "
“Thank you, President!
I will not forget it".
Diego's story, in his real life, is well known: he became a mega figure, he went from Argentines to Boca and, quickly, arrived in Europe: Barcelona, Napoli, Seville… He didn't stop.
The neighborhood?
He always remembered it fondly.
"I was born in a private neighborhood in Buenos Aires," he often says in reference to Villa Fiorito.
"Deprived of water, electricity and telephone".
