Maurizio Ponzi

{{short description|Italian film director}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}} {{Infobox person | image = | name = Maurizio Ponzi | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1939|5|8|df=yes}} | birth_place = Rome, Italy | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Film director, screenwriter | years_active = 1968 - 2012 }} '''Maurizio Ponzi''' (born 8 May 1939) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and cinema critic.

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.<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{Cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/1545/year/1983.html |title=Festival de Cannes: The Pool Hustlers |accessdate=20 June 2009|work=festival-cannes.com}}</ref>

==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)

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0690741|Maurizio Ponzi}}

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