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Italian film director From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maurizio Ponzi (born 8 May 1939) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and cinema critic.
Maurizio Ponzi | |
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Born | Rome, Italy | 8 May 1939
Occupation(s) | 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]
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