Carlo Lizzani
Directing • Born 1922-04-03 – Died 2013-10-05
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.
Filmography
33 credits
Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione
Movie • 2014
Self
The Tough and the Mighty
Movie • 1969
Journalist (uncredited)
Pope John XXIII
Movie • 2002
Pio XII
Outcry
Movie • 1946
Don Camillo, il prete
Linee d'ombra
Movie • 2007
Self
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
Movie • 2006
Self
Voi siete qui
Movie • 2011
Self
Portrait Of My Father
Movie • 2010
Self
Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni
Movie • 2012
Self
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
Movie • 2010
Self
Luchino Visconti
Movie • 2002
Self
The Years of Lost Images
Movie • 2012
Self
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
Movie • 1984
Self
We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism
Movie • 2013
Narrator / Self
A Dream of Women
Movie • 2011
Self
The Violent Four
Movie • 1968
Police official (uncredited)
Sperduti nel buio
Movie • 2014
Himself
Il falso bugiardo
Movie • 2008
Self
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Movie • 2001
Self - Filmmaker
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
Movie • 2017
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
Movie • 2011
Self
Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes
Movie • 2001
Narrator
Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo
Movie • 1997
Self
Western all'italiana
Movie • 2004
Behind Love and Anger
Movie • 2005
Self - Director (segment "L'indifferenza")
Through Children's Eyes - De Sica & Shoeshine
Movie • 2006
Rossellini
Movie • 1990
Self
Noi c'eravamo
Movie • 2011
Self
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
Movie • 2009
Self
Mr. Teddy
Movie • 2012
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
Movie • 2017
Self
Uomini forti
Movie • 2006
Self
Un film et son époque
TV • 2003
Self