Carlo Lizzani
Born: 1922-04-03 in Rome, Lazio, Italy
Died: 2013-10-05
Known For: Directing
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
2017
- Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life as Self
- Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2014
- Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione as Self
- Sperduti nel buio as Himself
2013
- We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism as Narrator / Self
2012
- Scossa ... (Director)
- The Years of Lost Images as Self
- Mr. Teddy
- Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni as Self
2011
- Noi c'eravamo as Self
- Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane as Self
- Voi siete qui as Self
- A Dream of Women as Self
2010
2009
2008
- Hotel Meina ... (Director)
- Il falso bugiardo as Self
- All Human Rights for All ... (Director)
- Luchino Visconti: Life as in a Novel ... (Director)
- Giuseppe De Santis ... (Director)
2007
- Linee d'ombra as Self
2006
2005
- Behind Love and Anger as Self - Director (segment "L'indifferenza")
2004
- Le cinque giornate di Milano ... (Director)
- Western all'italiana
2003
- Un film et son époque as Self
- Cesare Zavattini ... (Director)
2002
- Maria Josè, l'ultima regina ... (Director)
- Pope John XXIII as Pio XII
- Luchino Visconti as Self
2001
- Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes as Narrator
- Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema as Self - Filmmaker
1999
- La Donna del Treno ... (Director)
1997
1996
- Celluloide ... (Director)
1995
- Rome, November 12, 1994 ... (Director)
1991
- The Wicked ... (Director)
1990
- Rossellini as Self
1989
- 12 Directors for 12 Cities ... (Director)
1988
- Dear Gorbachev ... (Director)
1987
- The Devils of Monza ... (Writer)
- Assicurazione sulla morte ... (Director)
1985
- Mother Ebe ... (Director)
1984
- Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer as Self
- Nucleo Zero ... (Screenplay)
- Sabatoventiquattromarzo ... (Director)
- Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier ... (Director)
1983
- The House of the Yellow Carpet ... (Director)
- Venezia ... (Director)
- Inverno di malato ... (Writer)
1980
- Fontamara ... (Director)
1977
- Kleinhoff Hotel ... (Director)
1976
- San Babila-8 P.M. ... (Director)
1975
- The Teenage Prostitution Racket ... (Director)
1974
- Crazy Joe ... (Director)
- The Last Four Days ... (Director)
1972
- Black Turin ... (Director)
1971
- Roma bene ... (Director)
1969
- Love and Anger ... (Producer)
- The Bandit ... (Director)
- The Tough and the Mighty as Journalist (uncredited)
1968
- The Violent Four as Police official (uncredited)
- Black Jesus ... (Producer)
1967
- Kill and Pray ... (Producer)
1966
- The Hills Run Red ... (Director)
- Wake Up and Die ... (Director)
1965
- The Dirty Game ... (Director)
- Thrilling ... (Director)
- La Celestina P… R… ... (Screenplay)
1964
- It's a Hard Life ... (Director)
- Amori pericolosi ... (Writer)
1963
- The Verona Trial ... (Director)
1962
- To Arms, We Are Fascists! ... (Thanks)
1961
- Duel of Champions ... (Screenplay)
- The Policeman on Horseback ... (Director)
- Gold of Rome ... (Director)
1960
- The Hunchback ... (Screenplay)
1959
- Esterina ... (Director)
1958
- Behind the Great Wall ... (Director)
1956
- The Screwball ... (Director)
1954
- Chronicle of Poor Lovers ... (Director)
- Human Torpedoes ... (Screenplay)
1953
- Love in the City ... (Director)
- At the Edge of the City ... (Director)
- Amore che si paga ... (Director)
1951
- Attention! Bandits! ... (Screenplay)
1950
- Under the Olive Tree ... (Screenplay)
- Something Changed in Midday ... (Director)
- Modena, una città dell'Emilia rossa ... (Director)
1949
- Bitter Rice ... (Story)
- The Mill on the Po ... (First Assistant Director)
1948
- Germany, Year Zero ... (Assistant Director)
- Togliatti è ritornato ... (Director)
1947
- Tragic Hunt ... (Screenplay)
1946
- Outcry as Don Camillo, il prete