Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthdate
1922-04-03
Day of Death
2013-10-05
Place of Birth
Rome, Lazio, Italy
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.
Filmography (32)
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
2017
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017
Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione
2014
Sperduti nel buio
2014
We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism
2013
Mr. Teddy
2012
Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni
2012
The Years of Lost Images
2012
Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
2011
Noi c'eravamo
2011
Voi siete qui
2011A Dream of Women
2011
Portrait Of My Father
2010
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
2010
