Carlo Lizzani
Directing
Born: 1922-04-03 in Rome, Lazio, Italy
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.
Known For
Un film et son époque
Self
The Violent Four
Police official (uncredited)
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
Self
Voi siete qui
Self
Pope John XXIII
Pio XII
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
Self
Uomini forti
Self
Linee d'ombra
Self
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
Self
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Self - Filmmaker
Behind Love and Anger
Self - Director (segment "L'indifferenza")
Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
Self
Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione
Self
Luchino Visconti
Self
Outcry
Don Camillo, il prete
Western all'italiana
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
Self
The Years of Lost Images
Self
Noi c'eravamo
Self
The Tough and the Mighty
Journalist (uncredited)
Il falso bugiardo
Self
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Portrait Of My Father
Self
Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes
Narrator
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
Self
We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism
Narrator / Self
Mr. Teddy
Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni
Self
Rossellini
Self
Sperduti nel buio
Himself