Johan Cruyff: En un momento dado

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Barcelona

Shooting: 
2003
Release: 
2004
Type: 
Feature-length documentary
Director: 
Ramon Gieling
Production Co.: 
La Productora, Pieter Van Huystee Film.
Country: 
Spain
Netherlands
Synopsis: 

Johan Cruijff’s international fame as a football legend is still alive in Barcelona, the city where ‘number 14’ himself lives nowadays and where he has played many matches. Thirteen people from Barcelona talk about the most important moment Cruijff has given them. Those special moments, in which he surprised them, made them angry or made them mad with enthusiasm. A film about the search for Catalan identity and independence through the past decades and the important role Cruijff played, being almost a saint for the Catalans. Even some of his expressions (like ‘en un momento dado’, which means ‘at a given moment’ and is a literal translation out of Dutch) have now been incorporated in the Spanish language. Johan Cruijff himself cooperated on this documentary about his life for the first time since the seventies and also talks about his special moment.

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