Talking Movies: Biopic looks at Brazil's 'first football idol'

19 September 2012 Last updated at 19:21 ET Help

With the World Cup set to take place in Brazil in 2014 football-themed movies may gain a profile - already this year one soccer player has inspired a feature film.

Heleno looks at the life of one of the country's greatest footballers - Heleno de Freitas - who rose to fame in the 1940s.

From Rio de Janeiro, Talking Movies' Tom Brook reports.

Talking Movies is broadcast on BBC World News on Saturday at 1330 GMT and Sunday at 0030, 0730 and 2030 GMT.

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