Carlo Lizzani
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.
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Films (95)
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
2017 · Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017 · Self
Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione
2014 · Self
Sperduti nel buio
2014 · Himself
We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism
2013 · Narrator / Self, Writer
Mr. Teddy
2012
Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni
2012 · Self
The Years of Lost Images
2012 · Self
Scossa
2012 · Director
Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
2011 · Self
Noi c'eravamo
2011 · Self
Voi siete qui
2011 · Self
A Dream of Women
2011 · Self
Portrait Of My Father
2010 · Self
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
2010 · Self
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
2009 · Self
Luchino Visconti: Life as in a Novel
2008 · Director, Writer
All Human Rights for All
2008 · Director, Writer
Il falso bugiardo
2008 · Self
Hotel Meina
2008 · Director, Writer
Giuseppe De Santis
2008 · Director
Linee d'ombra
2007 · Self
Uomini forti
2006 · Self
Through Children's Eyes - De Sica & Shoeshine
2006
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
2006 · Self
Behind Love and Anger
2005 · Self - Director (segment "L'indifferenza"), Thanks
Western all'italiana
2004
Cesare Zavattini
2003 · Director
Luchino Visconti
2002 · Self, Director, Writer
Pope John XXIII
2002 · Pio XII
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
2001 · Self - Filmmaker
Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes
2001 · Narrator, Director
La Donna del Treno
1999 · Director
Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo
1997 · Self
Celluloide
1996 · Director, Screenplay
Rome, November 12, 1994
1995 · Director
Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier
1994 · Director
The Wicked
1991 · Director
Rossellini
1990 · Self
12 Directors for 12 Cities
1989 · Director
Dear Gorbachev
1988 · Director, Screenplay
The Devils of Monza
1987 · Writer
Assicurazione sulla morte
1987 · Director
Mother Ebe
1985 · Director, Writer
Nucleo Zero
1984 · Director, Screenplay, Writer
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
1984 · Self, Director
Sabatoventiquattromarzo
1984 · Director
The House of the Yellow Carpet
1983 · Director
Inverno di malato
1983 · Director, Writer
Venezia
1983 · Director
Fontamara
1980 · Director, Screenplay
Kleinhoff Hotel
1977 · Director
San Babila-8 P.M.
1976 · Director, Writer
The Teenage Prostitution Racket
1975 · Director, Writer
The Last Four Days
1974 · Director, Screenplay
Crazy Joe
1974 · Director
Black Turin
1972 · Director
Roma bene
1971 · Director, Screenplay
The Tough and the Mighty
1969 · Journalist (uncredited), Director, Writer
Love and Anger
1969 · Producer, Director, Writer
The Bandit
1969 · Director, Writer
Black Jesus
1968 · Producer
The Violent Four
1968 · Police official (uncredited), Director, Screenplay, Story
Kill and Pray
1967 · Director, Producer
The Hills Run Red
1966 · Director
Wake Up and Die
1966 · Director, Producer
Thrilling
1965 · Director
The Dirty Game
1965 · Director
La Celestina P… R…
1965 · Screenplay, Director
Amori pericolosi
1964 · Director, Writer
It's a Hard Life
1964 · Director, Screenplay
The Verona Trial
1963 · Director
To Arms, We Are Fascists!
1962 · Thanks
Gold of Rome
1961 · Director, Story, Screenplay
Duel of Champions
1961 · Screenplay
The Policeman on Horseback
1961 · Director
The Hunchback
1960 · Director, Screenplay
Esterina
1959 · Director
Behind the Great Wall
1958 · Director
The Screwball
1956 · Director, Writer
Human Torpedoes
1954 · Screenplay
Chronicle of Poor Lovers
1954 · Director, Screenplay
Love in the City
1953 · Director
Amore che si paga
1953 · Director
At the Edge of the City
1953 · Director, Writer
Attention! Bandits!
1951 · Director, Screenplay, Story
Something Changed in Midday
1950 · Director
Under the Olive Tree
1950 · Screenplay
Modena, una città dell'Emilia rossa
1950 · Director
Bitter Rice
1949 · Story, Screenplay
The Mill on the Po
1949 · First Assistant Director
Germany, Year Zero
1948 · Assistant Director, Screenplay
Togliatti è ritornato
1948 · Director, Screenplay
Tragic Hunt
1947 · Screenplay, Co-Director, Story
Outcry
1946 · Don Camillo, il prete, Screenplay
Séries (6)
Le cinque giornate di Milano
2004 · Director, Creator
Un film et son époque
2003 · Self
John XXIII: The Pope of Peace
2002 · Pio XII
Maria Josè, l'ultima regina
2002 · Director, Screenplay, Story
Un’isola
1986 · Director, Screenplay
Dieci registi italiani, dieci racconti italiani
1983 · Director, Writer