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 CittΓ . 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.Β He committed suicide in 2013.
Filmography (33)
CinecittΓ Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts2017
Water and Sugar β Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life2017
Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione2014
Sperduti nel buio2014
We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism2013
Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni2012
The Years of Lost Images2012
Mr. Teddy2012
Voi siete qui2011
A Dream of Women2011
Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane2011
Noi c'eravamo2011
Portrait Of My Father2010
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore2010
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad2009
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