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