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
1983 Cannes Film Festival
1983 Cannes Film Festival
Maurizio Ponzi