Pele is dead: his artistic vein, in singing and in cinema

This Thursday Pele died, who gave himself the pleasure of participate in several films and, also, to produce some. The most famous at the time of it was “Escape to Victory” (1980), directed by John Huston.

Based on real events from World War II, it focuses on a group of prisoners in a concentration camp who decide to escape. taking advantage of the match they have to play against a team of Nazi soldiers.

It was a big budget film, shot in Hungary. And there famous actors like Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine and Max von Sydow (played the German commander Von Steiner) face the likes of Pele, Bobby Moore and Ardilesamong others.

But O Rei had already participated in some productions in his country, with regular success.

The first was “Foreigners” (1969), science fiction, which was followed by comedy “O cheap Othello, not two cheap two thousand” (1971). What can be considered his first leading role was “The March” (1972), based on a novel by Afonso Schmidt. There O Rei plays Chico Bondale, a slave trying to free himself in 1887. In “Os trobadinhas” (1979), is a detective where Pele himself wrote the screenplay. Already as an interpreter, he ends up involved in a series of persecutions and hand-to-hand combat. No weapons.

He also acted “Eleven Plus One” (1983), “Pedro Mico” (1985) and comedy “Os trapelhoes oe Rei do Futebol” (1986).

His life also inspired the quasi-documentary “Pele, the birth of a legend” (2016), directed by Jeff and Michael Zimbalist.

Moreover, on several occasions, he expressed his opinion love for singing

​ come to compose the samba “At least have someone to cry for”starring Moacir Franco and Wilson Simonal.

And in 2006 released the album Peleginamix of samba, swing, bossa nova, which includes a duet with Gilberto Gil. And he recorded the song Ginga, with rapper Rappin Hood.