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.
Acting (27 movies)
Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione
2014
The Tough and the Mighty
1969
Pope John XXIII
2002
Outcry
1946
Linee d'ombra
2007
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
2006
Voi siete qui
2011
Portrait Of My Father
2010
Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni
2012
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
2010
Luchino Visconti
2002
The Years of Lost Images
2012
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
1984
We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism
2013
The Violent Four
1968
Sperduti nel buio
2014
Il falso bugiardo
2008
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
2001
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
2017
Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
2011
Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes
2001
Behind Love and Anger
2005
Rossellini
1990
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
2009
Mr. Teddy
2012
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017
Uomini forti
2006
Directing (59 movies)
Love in the City
1953
The Last Four Days
1974
Mother Ebe
1985
Black Turin
1972
Love and Anger
1969
It's a Hard Life
1964
Kleinhoff Hotel
1977
Attention! Bandits!
1951
The Violent Four
1968
Venezia
1983
The House of the Yellow Carpet
1983
The Hills Run Red
1966
At the Edge of the City
1953
Celluloide
1996
12 Directors for 12 Cities
1989
Roma bene
1971
The Screwball
1956
San Babila-8 P.M.
1976
Chronicle of Poor Lovers
1954
The Teenage Prostitution Racket
1975
The Verona Trial
1963
Crazy Joe
1974
The Tough and the Mighty
1969
The Policeman on Horseback
1961
Kill and Pray
1967
Le cinque giornate di Milano
2004
Thrilling
1965
Gold of Rome
1961
Wake Up and Die
1966
Maria Josè, l'ultima regina
2002
The Bandit
1969
Hotel Meina
2008
The Wicked
1991
Dear Gorbachev
1988
The Hunchback
1960
The Dirty Game
1965
Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes
2001
Fontamara
1980
Giuseppe De Santis
2008
Esterina
1959
Something Changed in Midday
1950
Amori pericolosi
1964
Inverno di malato
1983
Amore che si paga
1953
Scossa
2012
Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier
1984
Behind the Great Wall
1958
La Donna del Treno
1999
Luchino Visconti
2002
La Celestina P… R…
1965
Cesare Zavattini
2003
Nucleo Zero
1984
Rome, November 12, 1994
1995
Assicurazione sulla morte
1987
Togliatti è ritornato
1948
Luchino Visconti: Life as in a Novel
2008
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
1984
All Human Rights for All
2008
Sabatoventiquattromarzo
1984