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.
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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Filmography (Movies)
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
Character:Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Release Date:14/06/2017
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
Character:Self
Release Date:27/04/2017
Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione
Character:Self
Release Date:02/09/2014
Sperduti nel buio
Character:Himself
Release Date:09/04/2014
We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism
Character:Narrator / Self
Release Date:01/09/2013
Mr. Teddy
Character:
Release Date:31/12/2012
Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni
Character:Self
Release Date:10/11/2012
The Years of Lost Images
Character:Self
Release Date:12/07/2012
Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
Character:Self
Release Date:03/11/2011
Noi c'eravamo
Character:Self
Release Date:26/10/2011
Voi siete qui
Character:Self
Release Date:08/09/2011
A Dream of Women
Character:Self
Release Date:17/05/2011
Portrait Of My Father
Character:Self
Release Date:27/10/2010
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
Character:Self
Release Date:01/09/2010
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
Character:Self
Release Date:06/12/2009
Il falso bugiardo
Character:Self
Release Date:03/07/2008
Linee d'ombra
Character:Self
Release Date:18/10/2007
Uomini forti
Character:Self
Release Date:09/10/2006
Through Children's Eyes - De Sica & Shoeshine
Character:
Release Date:25/09/2006
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
Character:Self
Release Date:27/05/2006
Behind Love and Anger
Character:Self - Director (segment "L'indifferenza")
Release Date:01/01/2005
Western all'italiana
Character:
Release Date:01/01/2004
Luchino Visconti
Character:Self
Release Date:23/06/2002
Pope John XXIII
Character:Pio XII
Release Date:01/01/2002
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Character:Self - Filmmaker
Release Date:22/09/2001
Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes
Character:Narrator
Release Date:04/04/2001
Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo
Character:Self
Release Date:01/02/1997
Rossellini
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1990
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
Character:Self
Release Date:08/09/1984
The Tough and the Mighty
Character:Journalist (uncredited)
Release Date:23/09/1969
The Violent Four
Character:Police official (uncredited)
Release Date:29/03/1968
Outcry
Character:Don Camillo, il prete
Release Date:06/11/1946
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