Carlo Lizzani
Known for: Directing
Born: April 3, 1922
Died: October 5, 2013
Place of birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
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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Filmography
95 movies · 3 TV shows, newest first
6.5
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
2017
5.2
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017
NR
Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione
2014
NR
Sperduti nel buio
2014
NR
We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism
2013
NR
Mr. Teddy
2012
NR
Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni
2012
NR
The Years of Lost Images
2012
NR
Scossa
2012
NR
Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
2011
10.0
Noi c'eravamo
2011
NR
Voi siete qui
2011NR
A Dream of Women
2011
7.3
Portrait Of My Father
2010
6.2
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
2010
7.0
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
2009NR
Luchino Visconti: Life as in a Novel
2008
NR
All Human Rights for All
2008
NR
Il falso bugiardo
2008
6.0
Hotel Meina
20086.0
Giuseppe De Santis
2008
NR
Linee d'ombra
2007
NR
Uomini forti
2006NR
Through Children's Eyes - De Sica & Shoeshine
2006
7.0
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
2006
NR
Behind Love and Anger
2005
7.0
Le cinque giornate di Milano
20044.0
Western all'italiana
2004
10.0
Un film et son époque
2003
NR
Cesare Zavattini
2003
7.0
Luchino Visconti
2002
7.0
Maria Josè, l'ultima regina
2002
6.9
Pope John XXIII
2002
6.4
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
2001
7.0
Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes
2001
10.0
La Donna del Treno
19997.0
Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo
1997
6.6
Celluloide
1996NR
Rome, November 12, 1994
1995
7.5
The Wicked
1991
NR
Rossellini
1990
5.6
12 Directors for 12 Cities
1989
5.3
Dear Gorbachev
1988
4.0
The Devils of Monza
1987
5.6
Assicurazione sulla morte
1987
4.9
Mother Ebe
1985NR
Nucleo Zero
1984
7.0
Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier
1984
6.5
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
1984
NR
Sabatoventiquattromarzo
1984
5.6
The House of the Yellow Carpet
1983
NR
Inverno di malato
1983NR
Venezia
1983
7.2
Fontamara
1980
6.0
Kleinhoff Hotel
1977
6.3
San Babila-8 P.M.
1976
5.4
The Teenage Prostitution Racket
1975
6.3
The Last Four Days
1974
6.7
Crazy Joe
1974
5.3
Black Turin
1972
6.0
Roma bene
1971
6.4
The Tough and the Mighty
1969
5.3
Love and Anger
1969
5.5
The Bandit
1969
5.2
Black Jesus
1968
6.6
The Violent Four
1968
6.4
Kill and Pray
1967
5.9
The Hills Run Red
1966
6.3
Wake Up and Die
1966
7.0
Thrilling
1965
6.0
The Dirty Game
1965
7.0
La Celestina P… R…
1965
7.0
Amori pericolosi
1964
6.6
It's a Hard Life
1964
7.5
The Verona Trial
1963
7.0
To Arms, We Are Fascists!
1962
6.6
Gold of Rome
1961
5.6
Duel of Champions
1961
6.0
The Policeman on Horseback
1961
6.6
The Hunchback
1960
5.2
Esterina
1959
7.0
Behind the Great Wall
1958
6.6
The Screwball
1956
7.5
Human Torpedoes
1954
6.8
Chronicle of Poor Lovers
1954
6.5
Love in the City
1953NR
Amore che si paga
1953
7.0
At the Edge of the City
1953
6.1
Attention! Bandits!
195110.0
Something Changed in Midday
1950
7.1
Under the Olive Tree
1950NR
Modena, una città dell'Emilia rossa
1950
7.5
Bitter Rice
1949
5.9
The Mill on the Po
1949
7.6
Germany, Year Zero
1948NR
Togliatti è ritornato
1948
6.6
Tragic Hunt
1947
6.7
Outcry
1946