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.
Filmography
all 96
Movies 93
Director 61
self 21
Writer 7
TV Shows 3
Narrator 1
Producer 1
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts (2017)
Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione (2014)
Sperduti nel buio (2014)
We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism (2013)
Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni (2012)
The Years of Lost Images (2012)
Scossa (2012)
Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane (2011)
Noi c'eravamo (2011)
Voi siete qui (2011)
A Dream of Women (2011)
Portrait Of My Father (2010)
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore (2010)
Luchino Visconti: Life as in a Novel (2008)
All Human Rights for All (2008)
Il falso bugiardo (2008)
Giuseppe De Santis (2008)
Linee d'ombra (2007)
Hotel Meina (2007)
Through Children's Eyes - De Sica & Shoeshine (2006)
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City' (2006)
Un attore contro - Gian Maria Volonté (2005)
Behind Love and Anger (2005)
Le cinque giornate di Milano (2004)
Le cinque giornate di Milano (2004)
Western all'italiana (2004)
Un film et son époque (2003)
Cesare Zavattini (2003)
Maria Josè, l'ultima regina (2002)
Pope John XXIII (2002)
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema (2001)
Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes (2001)
Luchino Visconti (1999)
La Donna del Treno (1999)
Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo (1997)
Celluloide (1996)
Rome Twelve November 1994 (1995)
The Wicked (1991)
Rossellini (1990)
La trappola (1989)
12 Directors for 12 Cities (1989)
Dear Gorbachev (1988)
The Devils of Monza (1987)
Assicurazione sulla morte (1987)
Mother Ebe (1985)
Nucleo Zero (1984)
Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier (1984)
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer (1984)
The House of the Yellow Carpet (1983)
Inverno di malato (1983)
Venezia (1983)
Fontamara (1980)
Kleinhoff Hotel (1977)
San Babila-8 P.M. (1976)
The Teenage Prostitution Racket (1975)
The Last Four Days (1974)
Crazy Joe (1974)
Black Turin (1972)
Roma bene (1971)
The Tough and the Mighty (1969)
Love and Anger (1969)
The Bandit (1969)
Black Jesus (1968)
The Violent Four (1968)
Kill and Pray (1967)
The Hills Run Red (1966)
Wake Up and Die (1966)
Thrilling (1965)
The Dirty Game (1965)
La Celestina P… R… (1965)
Amori pericolosi (1964)
It's a Hard Life (1964)
The Verona Trial (1963)
To Arms, We Are Fascists! (1962)
Gold of Rome (1961)
Duel of Champions (1961)
The Policeman on Horseback (1961)
The Hunchback (1960)
Esterina (1959)
Behind the Great Wall (1958)
The Screwball (1956)
Human Torpedoes (1954)
Chronicle of Poor Lovers (1954)
Love in the City (1953)
Amore che si paga (1953)
At the Edge of the City (1953)
Attention! Bandits! (1951)
Something Changed in Midday (1950)
Under the Olive Tree (1950)
Bitter Rice (1949)
The Mill on the Po (1949)
Germany, Year Zero (1948)
Togliatti è ritornato (1948)
Tragic Hunt (1947)
Outcry (1946)
Soltanto un nome nei titoli di testa
Ratings
Gallery
Information
Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1922-04-03
Deathday2013-10-05 (91 years old)
Birth PlaceRome, Italy
CitizenshipsKingdom of Italy, Italy
Also Known AsLee W. Beaver, Карло Лидзани, Карло Лиццани
AwardsKnight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
This article uses material from Wikipedia.
- Carlo Lizzani
- Filmography
- Information
- Related Persons