Known For
Directing
Born
Apr 03, 1922
Died
Oct 05, 2013
Place of Birth
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Credits
100 titles
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
Filmography
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
Self
Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione
Self
Sperduti nel buio
Himself
We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism
Narrator / Self
Mr. Teddy
Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni
Self
The Years of Lost Images
Self
Scossa
Director
Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
Self
Noi c'eravamo
Self
Voi siete qui
Self
A Dream of Women
Self
Portrait Of My Father
Self
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
Self
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
Self
Luchino Visconti: Life as in a Novel
Director
All Human Rights for All
Director
Il falso bugiardo
Self
Hotel Meina
Director
Giuseppe De Santis
Director
Linee d'ombra
Self
Uomini forti
Self
Through Children's Eyes - De Sica & Shoeshine
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
Self
Behind Love and Anger
Self - Director (segment "L'indifferenza")
Le cinque giornate di Milano
Director
Western all'italiana
Un film et son époque
Self
Cesare Zavattini
Director
Luchino Visconti
Self
John XXIII: The Pope of Peace
Pio XII
Maria Josè, l'ultima regina
Director
Pope John XXIII
Pio XII
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Self - Filmmaker
Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes
Narrator
La Donna del Treno
Director
Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo
Self
Celluloide
Director
Rome, November 12, 1994
Director
Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier
Director
The Wicked
Director
Rossellini
Self
12 Directors for 12 Cities
Director
Dear Gorbachev
Screenplay
The Devils of Monza
Writer
Assicurazione sulla morte
Director
Un’isola
Director
Mother Ebe
Director
Nucleo Zero
Screenplay