
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.
60 directing credits · 33 acting credits
Directing · 60

The Hills Run Red
1966

Le cinque giornate di Milano
2004

Kill and Pray
1967

Crazy Joe
1974

The Verona Trial
1963

The Last Four Days
1974

Black Turin
1972

Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
1984

The Dirty Game
1965

The Violent Four
1968

San Babila-8 P.M.
1976

Esterina
1959

Love in the City
1953

Roma bene
1971

The Wicked
1991

Love and Anger
1969

Kleinhoff Hotel
1977

The Teenage Prostitution Racket
1975

Celluloide
1996

Maria Josè, l'ultima regina
2002

The Tough and the Mighty
1969

All Human Rights for All
2008

The Hunchback
1960

Chronicle of Poor Lovers
1954

Attention! Bandits!
1951

Luchino Visconti
2002

Mother Ebe
1985

Thrilling
1965

Fontamara
1980

12 Directors for 12 Cities
1989

La Celestina P… R…
1965

Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes
2001

Wake Up and Die
1966

Cesare Zavattini
2003
Rome, November 12, 1994
1995

Hotel Meina
2008

At the Edge of the City
1953

Amori pericolosi
1964

It's a Hard Life
1964

The House of the Yellow Carpet
1983

The Bandit
1969
Something Changed in Midday
1950

The Screwball
1956

Gold of Rome
1961

Dear Gorbachev
1988

The Policeman on Horseback
1961
Luchino Visconti: Life as in a Novel
2008

La Donna del Treno
1999

Assicurazione sulla morte
1987
Amore che si paga
1953

Sabatoventiquattromarzo
1984
Nucleo Zero
1984

Scossa
2012
Giuseppe De Santis
2008

Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier
1984

Behind the Great Wall
1958
Venezia
1983

Inverno di malato
1983
Togliatti è ritornato
1948
Modena, una città dell'Emilia rossa
1950
Acting · 33

Un film et son époque
2003

Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
2001

Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017

Pope John XXIII
2002
Western all'italiana
2004

Il falso bugiardo
2008

Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
1984

Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
2017

The Violent Four
1968

Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
2009

Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
2010

The Tough and the Mighty
1969

Portrait Of My Father
2010

Noi c'eravamo
2011

Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
2011

Luchino Visconti
2002

Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes
2001

The Years of Lost Images
2012

Behind Love and Anger
2005

Linee d'ombra
2007

Outcry
1946

Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
2006
Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo
1997

Rossellini
1990

We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism
2013

Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni
2012

Mr. Teddy
2012

Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione
2014

Sperduti nel buio
2014

Uomini forti
2006

Voi siete qui
2011
Through Children's Eyes - De Sica & Shoeshine
2006
A Dream of Women
2011