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
all 99
Movies 96
Director 58
self 24
Writer 5
TV Shows 3
Narrator 2
Producer 2
Screenplay 2
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts (2017)
Scossa (2012)
All Human Rights for All (2008)
Hotel Meina (2008)
Giuseppe De Santis (2008)
Behind Love and Anger (2005)
Le cinque giornate di Milano (2004)
Cesare Zavattini (2003)
Pope John XXIII (2002)
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema (2001)
Luchino Visconti (1999)
La Donna del Treno (1999)
Celluloide (1996)
The Wicked (1991)
La trappola (1989)
Dear Gorbachev (1988)
Mother Ebe (1985)
Nucleo Zero (1984)
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer (1984)
Inverno di malato (1983)
Venezia (1983)
Fontamara (1980)
Kleinhoff Hotel (1977)
San Babila-8 P.M. (1976)
The Last Four Days (1974)
Crazy Joe (1974)
Black Turin (1972)
Roma bene (1971)
Love and Anger (1969)
The Bandit (1969)
Black Jesus (1968)
The Violent Four (1968)
Kill and Pray (1967)
The Hills Run Red (1966)
Wake Up and Die (1966)
Thrilling (1965)
The Dirty Game (1965)
La Celestina P… R… (1965)
Amori pericolosi (1964)
It's a Hard Life (1964)
The Verona Trial (1963)
Gold of Rome (1961)
The Hunchback (1960)
Esterina (1959)
The Screwball (1956)
Human Torpedoes (1954)
Love in the City (1953)
Amore che si paga (1953)
Attention! Bandits! (1951)
Bitter Rice (1949)
The Mill on the Po (1949)
Togliatti è ritornato (1948)
Tragic Hunt (1947)
Outcry (1946)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1922-04-03
Deathday2013-10-05 (91 years old)
Birth PlaceRome, Italy
CitizenshipsItaly, Kingdom of Italy
Also Known AsLee W. Beaver, Карло Лидзани, Карло Лиццани
AwardsKnight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
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