Maurizio Ponzi
Maurizio Ponzi (born 8 May 1939) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and cinema critic.
Maurizio Ponzi | |
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| Born | 8 May 1939 Rome, Italy |
| Occupation | Film director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1968 - 2004 |
Born in Rome, he wrote cinema reviews in several Italian magazines during the early 1960s. He worked as assistant director in Pier Paolo Pasolini's episode in Amore e rabbia and directed a series of documentaries in 1967–1968.
He has directed 22 films between 1968 (his debut film I visionari won a prize in the Locarno Festival) and 2004. His film The Pool Hustlers (Io, Chiara e lo Scuro, one of three featuring Francesco Nuti that Ponzi directed in the early 1980s) was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
Selected filmography
- The Visionaries (1968)
- Equinozio (1971)
- Il caso Raoul (1975)
- The Pool Hustlers (1982)
- What a Ghostly Silence There Is Tonight (1982)
- Son contento (1983)
- Aurora (1984)
- Il tenente dei carabinieri (1986)
- Noi uomini duri (1987)
- Il volpone (1988)
- Volevo i pantaloni (1990)
- Vietato ai minori (1992)
- Anche i commercialisti hanno un'anima (1994)
- Italiani (1996)
- Fratelli coltelli (1997)
- Besame mucho (1999)
- A luci spente (2004)
- Ci vediamo a casa (2012)
References
- "Festival de Cannes: The Pool Hustlers". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 20 June 2009.
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