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Directed by
  
Maurizio Ponzi

Cinematography
  
Carlo Cerchio

Initial release
  
11 March 1983 (Italy)

Sequel
  
Casablanca, Casablanca

6.9/10
IMDb

Starring
  
Francesco Nuti

Edited by
  
Sergio Montanari

Director
  
Maurizio Ponzi

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Produced by
  
Gianfranco PiccioliMarco Valsania

Written by
  
Francesco NutiFranco FerriniEnrico OldoiniMaurizio Ponzi

Screenplay
  
Enrico Oldoini, Franco Ferrini

Nominations
  
David di Donatello for Best New Actor

Cast
  
Francesco Nuti, Giuliana De Sio, Marcello Lotti, Novello Novelli, Antonio Petrocelli

Similar
  
The Hustler, The Color of Money, The Balti Bullet, The Last Kiss, Turn the River

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. 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

    The Pool Hustlers Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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