Carlo Lizzani
Biography
Carlo Lizzani was an Italian film director, screenwriter and critic. Born in Rome, after World War II Lizzani worked on such notable films of the late 1940s as Roberto Rossellini's Germany Year Zero, Alberto Lattuada's The Mill on the Po (both 1948) and Giuseppe De Santis' Bitter Rice (1950, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Story). After helming documentaries, he debuted as a feature director with the admired World War II drama Achtung! Banditi! (1951). He films an episode of L'Amore in Città. Respected for his awarded drama Chronicle of Poor Lovers (1954), he has proven a solid director of genre films, notably crime films such as The Violent Four (1968) and Crazy Joe (1974) or erotic comedy Roma Bene (1971). He worked frequently for Italian television in the 1980s and was a member of the jury at the Berlin Film Festival in 1994. His film Celluloide deals with the making of Rome, Open City. He committed suicide in 2013.
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Movies (47)
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2017
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
as Self
2017
Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione
as Self
2014
Sperduti nel buio
as Himself
2014
We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism
as Narrator / Self
2013
Mr. Teddy
2012
Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni
as Self
2012
The Years of Lost Images
as Self
2012
Scossa
Director (Directing)
2012
Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
as Self
2011
Noi c'eravamo
as Self
2011
Voi siete qui
as Self
2011
A Dream of Women
as Self
2011
Portrait Of My Father
as Self
2010
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
as Self
2010
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
as Self
2009
Luchino Visconti: Life as in a Novel
Director (Directing)
2008
All Human Rights for All
Director (Directing)
2008
Il falso bugiardo
as Self
2008
Hotel Meina
Director (Directing)
2008
Giuseppe De Santis
Director (Directing)
2008
Linee d'ombra
as Self
2007
Uomini forti
as Self
2006
Through Children's Eyes - De Sica & Shoeshine
2006
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
as Self
2006
Behind Love and Anger
as Self - Director (segment "L'indifferenza")
2005
Western all'italiana
2004
Cesare Zavattini
Director (Directing)
2003
Luchino Visconti
as Self
2002
Pope John XXIII
as Pio XII
2002
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
as Self - Filmmaker
2001
Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes
as Narrator
2001
La Donna del Treno
Director (Directing)
1999
Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo
as Self
1997
Celluloide
Director (Directing)
1996
Rome, November 12, 1994
Director (Directing)
1995
The Wicked
Director (Directing)
1991
Rossellini
as Self
1990
12 Directors for 12 Cities
Director (Directing)
1989
Dear Gorbachev
Director (Directing)
1988
The Devils of Monza
Writer (Writing)
1987
Assicurazione sulla morte
Director (Directing)
1987
Mother Ebe
Director (Directing)
1985
Nucleo Zero
Screenplay (Writing)
1984
Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier
Director (Directing)
1984
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
as Self
1984
Sabatoventiquattromarzo
Director (Directing)
1984
