On Friday 13 December, on the occasion of the screening of Cuore di Cane (1976) by Alberto Lattuada, actor and musician Aurelio Ponzoni, known as Cochi, is the protagonist of a conversation with critic Manlio Gomarasca and writer Luca Crovi.
The event is part of #Nocturna, exploring the broad universe of genre cinema with the complicity of the magazine Nocturno.
BIOGRAPHY
Cochi Ponzoni is an Italian theater and film actor. In the 1960s, he began training as a cabaret performer in Milan’s historic clubs Cab 64 and Derby Club. In partnership with his fellow-student Renato Pozzetto, he formed the duo ‘Cochi e Renato,’ who, with its fresh, lighthearted comedy, first won over Milan and then, with the spread of televisions throughout the country, also Italy. Until the mid-1970s Cochi and Renato enjoyed growing popularity, culminating in the films Sturmtruppen (Salvatore Samperi, 1976) and Tre tigri contro tre tigri (Steno, Sergio Corbucci, 1977). The pair then split up, and Cochi dedicated himself to an independent television career in the 1980s and 1990s. In the 2000s, however, he and Pozzetto joined forces once again. Films in his long acting career include: Cuore di cane (Alberto Lattuada, 1976), Telefoni bianchi (Dino Risi, 1976), Il comune senso del pudore (Alberto Sordi, 1976), Belli e brutti ridono tutti (Domenico Paolella, 1979), and Il marchese del Grillo (Mario Monicelli, 1981).