Carlo Lizzani
Born
April 3, 1922
Died
October 5, 2013 (91 years old)
Known For
Directing
Place of Birth
Rome, Lazio, Italy
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
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2017
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
Self
2017
Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione
Self
2014
Sperduti nel buio
Himself
2014
We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism
Narrator / Self
2013
Mr. Teddy
2012
Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni
Self
2012
The Years of Lost Images
Self
2012
Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
Self
2011
Noi c'eravamo
Self
2011
Voi siete qui
Self
2011
A Dream of Women
Self
2011
Portrait Of My Father
Self
2010
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
Self
2010
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
Self
2009
Il falso bugiardo
Self
2008
Linee d'ombra
Self
2007
Through Children's Eyes - De Sica & Shoeshine
2006
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
Self
2006
Behind Love and Anger
Self - Director (segment "L'indifferenza")
2005
Western all'italiana
2004
Un film et son époque
Self · (1 episode)
2003
Luchino Visconti
Self
2002
Pope John XXIII
Pio XII
2002
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Self - Filmmaker
2001
Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes
Narrator
2001
Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo
Self
1997
Rossellini
Self
1990
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
Self
1984
The Tough and the Mighty
Journalist (uncredited)
1969
The Violent Four
Police official (uncredited)
1968
Outcry
Don Camillo, il prete
1946