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.
Known For
Un film et son époque
The Violent Four
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
Pope John XXIII
Portrait Of My Father
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Luchino Visconti
The Tough and the Mighty
All Movies (32)
- Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts2017 · as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life2017 · as Self
- Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione2014 · as Self
- Sperduti nel buio2014 · as Himself
- We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism2013 · as Narrator / Self
- Mr. Teddy2012
- Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni2012 · as Self
- The Years of Lost Images2012 · as Self
- Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane2011 · as Self
- Noi c'eravamo2011 · as Self
- Voi siete qui2011 · as Self
- A Dream of Women2011 · as Self
- Portrait Of My Father2010 · as Self
- Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore2010 · as Self
- Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad2009 · as Self
- Il falso bugiardo2008 · as Self
- Linee d'ombra2007 · as Self
- Uomini forti2006 · as Self
- Through Children's Eyes - De Sica & Shoeshine2006
- Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'2006 · as Self
- Behind Love and Anger2005 · as Self - Director (segment "L'indifferenza")
- Western all'italiana2004
- Luchino Visconti2002 · as Self
- Pope John XXIII2002 · as Pio XII
- Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema2001 · as Self - Filmmaker
- Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes2001 · as Narrator
- Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo1997 · as Self
- Rossellini1990 · as Self
- Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer1984 · as Self
- The Tough and the Mighty1969 · as Journalist (uncredited)
- The Violent Four1968 · as Police official (uncredited)
- Outcry1946 · as Don Camillo, il prete
All TV Shows (1)
- Un film et son époque2003 · as Self