The Pool Hustlers
The Pool Hustlers a.k.a. Io, Chiara e lo scuro | |
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Directed by | Maurizio Ponzi |
Written by | Francesco Nuti Franco Ferrini Enrico Oldoini Maurizio Ponzi |
Produced by | Gianfranco Piccioli |
Starring | Francesco Nuti |
Cinematography | Carlo Cerchio |
Edited by | Sergio Montanari |
Music by | Carlo Maria Cordio |
Release date |
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Running time | 103 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
The Pool Hustlers (Italian: Io, Chiara e lo Scuro, "I, Chiara and lo Scuro") is a 1982 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Maurizio Ponzi. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival.[1] It was co-written by Ponzi, male lead Francesco Nuti and established screenwriters Franco Ferrini and Enrico Oldoini. The symbolic names of the characters mentioned in the Italian title, "Chiara" and "lo Scuro", mean "Bright" or "Clear", and "the Dark One" or "the Darkness", respectively.
Cast[]
- Francesco Nuti as Francesco Piccoli a.k.a. "il Toscano" ("the Tuscan")
- Giuliana De Sio as Chiara
- (as Marcello Lotti) - "lo Scuro" ("the Dark One")
- Antonio Petrocelli as Mancino
- Novello Novelli (as Novellantonio Novelli) - Merlo
- Renato Cecchetto as Giovanni
- (as Pietro Angelo Pozzato)
References[]
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Pool Hustlers". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 20 June 2009.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1982 films
- Italian-language films
- 1980s comedy-drama films
- 1982 comedy films
- 1982 drama films
- Cue sports films
- Films directed by Maurizio Ponzi
- Italian films
- Films set in Rome
- 1980s Italian film stubs
- 1980s comedy-drama film stubs