The Pool Hustlers
| The Pool Hustlers a.k.a. Io, Chiara e lo scuro | |
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 Front cover of the North American (NTSC), English-dubbed VHS version | |
| Directed by | Maurizio Ponzi |
| Written by | Francesco Nuti Franco Ferrini Enrico Oldoini Maurizio Ponzi |
| Produced by | Gianfranco Piccioli Marco Valsania |
| 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 (
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
- 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)
References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Pool Hustlers". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 20 June 2009.
External links
- The Pool Hustlers at IMDb
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