The Pool Hustlers
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.
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Directed by | Maurizio Ponzi |
Produced by | Gianfranco Piccioli Marco Valsania |
Written by | Francesco Nuti Franco Ferrini Enrico Oldoini Maurizio Ponzi |
Starring | Francesco Nuti |
Music by | Carlo Maria Cordio |
Cinematography | Carlo Cerchio |
Edited by | Sergio Montanari |
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Running time | 103 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
Cast
- Francesco Nuti as Francesco Piccoli a.k.a. "il Toscano" ("the Tuscan")
- Giuliana De Sio as Chiara
- Marcello Lotti (as Marcello Lotti) - "lo Scuro" ("the Dark One")
- Antonio Petrocelli as Mancino
- Novello Novelli (as Novellantonio Novelli) - Merlo
- Renato Cecchetto as Giovanni
- Claudio Casale
- Carlo Neri
- Claudio Spadaro
- Stefano Cuneo
- Pierangelo Pozzato (as Pietro Angelo Pozzato)
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References
- "Festival de Cannes: The Pool Hustlers". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 20 June 2009.
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