Maurizio Ponzi

Maurizio Ponzi (born 8 May 1939) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and cinema critic.

Maurizio Ponzi
Born	(1939-05-08) 8 May 1939 (age 86) Rome, Italy
Occupations	Film director, screenwriter
Years active	1968 - 2012

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 2012. 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)