Carlo Lizzani

Known for: Directing
Born: April 3, 1922, Rome, Lazio, Italy
Died: October 5, 2013
Movies: 100

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.

Best-Known Movies

7.6

Germany, Year Zero

1948

7.5

Bitter Rice

1949

6.5

Love in the City

1953

6.3

The Last Four Days

1974

6.6

It's a Hard Life

1964

6.3

San Babila-8 P.M.

1976

6.6

The Violent Four

1968

6.4

Kill and Pray

1967

5.2

Love and Anger

1969

6.1

Attention! Bandits!

1951

Filmography

2017	Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts	Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2017	Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life	Self
2014	Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione	Self
2014	Sperduti nel buio	Himself
2013	We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism	Narrator / Self
2012	Mr. Teddy
2012	Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni	Self
2012	The Years of Lost Images	Self
2011	Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane	Self
2011	Noi c'eravamo	Self
2011	Voi siete qui	Self
2011	A Dream of Women	Self
2010	Portrait Of My Father	Self
2010	Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore	Self
2009	Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad	Self
2008	Il falso bugiardo	Self
2007	Linee d'ombra	Self
2006	Uomini forti	Self
2006	Through Children's Eyes - De Sica & Shoeshine
2006	Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'	Self
2005	Behind Love and Anger	Self - Director (segment "L'indifferenza")
2004	Western all'italiana
2002	Luchino Visconti	Self
2002	Pope John XXIII	Pio XII
2001	Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema	Self - Filmmaker
2001	Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes	Narrator
1997	Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo	Self
1990	Rossellini	Self
1984	Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer	Self
1969	The Tough and the Mighty	Journalist (uncredited)
1968	The Violent Four	Police official (uncredited)
1946	Outcry	Don Camillo, il prete

Directing, Writing & Producing

2013	We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism	Writer
2012	Scossa	Director
2008	Luchino Visconti: Life as in a Novel	Director, Writer
2008	All Human Rights for All	Director, Writer
2008	Hotel Meina	Director, Writer
2008	Giuseppe De Santis	Director
2003	Cesare Zavattini	Director
2002	Luchino Visconti	Director, Writer
2001	Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes	Director
1999	La Donna del Treno	Director
1996	Celluloide	Director, Screenplay
1995	Rome, November 12, 1994	Director
1994	Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier	Director
1991	The Wicked	Director
1989	12 Directors for 12 Cities	Director
1988	Dear Gorbachev	Director, Screenplay
1987	The Devils of Monza	Writer
1987	Assicurazione sulla morte	Director
1985	Mother Ebe	Director, Writer
1984	Nucleo Zero	Director, Screenplay, Writer
1984	Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer	Director
1984	Sabatoventiquattromarzo	Director
1983	The House of the Yellow Carpet	Director
1983	Inverno di malato	Director, Writer
1983	Venezia	Director
1980	Fontamara	Director, Screenplay
1977	Kleinhoff Hotel	Director
1976	San Babila-8 P.M.	Director, Writer
1975	The Teenage Prostitution Racket	Director, Writer
1974	The Last Four Days	Director, Screenplay
1974	Crazy Joe	Director
1972	Black Turin	Director
1971	Roma bene	Director, Screenplay
1969	The Tough and the Mighty	Director, Writer
1969	Love and Anger	Producer, Director, Writer
1969	The Bandit	Director, Writer
1968	Black Jesus	Producer
1968	The Violent Four	Director, Screenplay
1967	Kill and Pray	Director, Producer
1966	The Hills Run Red	Director
1966	Wake Up and Die	Director, Producer
1965	Thrilling	Director
1965	The Dirty Game	Director
1965	La Celestina P… R…	Screenplay, Director
1964	Amori pericolosi	Director, Writer
1964	It's a Hard Life	Director, Screenplay
1963	The Verona Trial	Director
1961	Gold of Rome	Director, Screenplay
1961	Duel of Champions	Screenplay
1961	The Policeman on Horseback	Director
1960	The Hunchback	Director, Screenplay
1959	Esterina	Director
1958	Behind the Great Wall	Director
1956	The Screwball	Director, Writer
1954	Human Torpedoes	Screenplay
1954	Chronicle of Poor Lovers	Director, Screenplay
1953	Love in the City	Director
1953	Amore che si paga	Director
1953	At the Edge of the City	Director, Writer
1951	Attention! Bandits!	Director, Screenplay
1950	Something Changed in Midday	Director
1950	Under the Olive Tree	Screenplay
1950	Modena, una città dell'Emilia rossa	Director
1949	Bitter Rice	Screenplay
1948	Germany, Year Zero	Screenplay
1948	Togliatti è ritornato	Director, Screenplay
1947	Tragic Hunt	Screenplay
1946	Outcry	Screenplay

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