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
1982 (1982)
Running time
103 minutes
Country
Italy
Language
Italian
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.[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.
^"Festival de Cannes: The Pool Hustlers". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 20 June 2009.
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