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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1922-04-03 (103 years old)

Place of Birth

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Carlo Lizzani

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.

Known For

Acting

2017

Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

Behind Love and Anger as Self - Director (segment "L'indifferenza")

2004

2003

2002

Pope John XXIII as Pio XII

2001

Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema as Self - Filmmaker

1997

1990

Rossellini as Self

1984

1969

The Tough and the Mighty as Journalist (uncredited)

1968

The Violent Four as Police official (uncredited)

1946

Outcry as Don Camillo, il prete

Directing

2012

Scossa as Director

2003

Cesare Zavattini as Director

1999

La Donna del Treno as Director

1996

Celluloide as Director

1995

1991

The Wicked as Director

1988

Dear Gorbachev as Director

1985

Mother Ebe as Director

1983

Venezia as Director
Inverno di malato as Director

1980

Fontamara as Director

1977

Kleinhoff Hotel as Director

1976

San Babila-8 P.M. as Director

1974

The Last Four Days as Director
Crazy Joe as Director

1972

Black Turin as Director

1971

Roma bene as Director

1969

Love and Anger as Director
The Bandit as Director

1968

The Violent Four as Director

1967

Kill and Pray as Director

1966

The Hills Run Red as Director
Wake Up and Die as Director

1965

Thrilling as Director
The Dirty Game as Director

1964

It's a Hard Life as Director
Amori pericolosi as Director

1963

The Verona Trial as Director

1961

Gold of Rome as Director

1960

The Hunchback as Director

1959

Esterina as Director

1958

1956

The Screwball as Director

1954

1953

Love in the City as Director
Amore che si paga as Director

1951

1949

The Mill on the Po as First Assistant Director

1948

Germany, Year Zero as Assistant Director

1947

Tragic Hunt as Co-Director

Production

1969

Love and Anger as Producer

1968

Black Jesus as Producer

1967

Kill and Pray as Producer

1966

Wake Up and Die as Producer

Writing

2008

Hotel Meina as Screenplay

1996

Celluloide as Screenplay

1988

Dear Gorbachev as Screenplay

1987

1985

Mother Ebe as Writer

1984

Nucleo Zero as Screenplay
Nucleo Zero as Writer

1983

1980

Fontamara as Screenplay

1976

1974

The Last Four Days as Screenplay

1971

Roma bene as Screenplay

1969

Love and Anger as Writer
The Bandit as Writer

1968

The Violent Four as Screenplay

1965

1964

It's a Hard Life as Screenplay

1961

Gold of Rome as Story
Gold of Rome as Screenplay
Duel of Champions as Screenplay

1960

The Hunchback as Screenplay

1956

The Screwball as Writer

1954

Human Torpedoes as Screenplay

1951

Attention! Bandits! as Screenplay

1950

Under the Olive Tree as Screenplay

1949

Bitter Rice as Story
Bitter Rice as Screenplay

1948

1947

Tragic Hunt as Screenplay
Tragic Hunt as Story

1946

Outcry as Screenplay

Crew

2005

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