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.
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- 2017 · Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- 2014 · Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione as Self
- 2014 · Sperduti nel buio as Himself
- 2013 · We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism as Narrator / Self
- 2012 · Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni as Self
- 2012 · The Years of Lost Images as Self
- 2011 · Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane as Self
- 2011 · Noi c'eravamo as Self
- 2011 · Voi siete qui as Self
- 2011 · A Dream of Women as Self
- 2010 · Portrait Of My Father as Self
- 2010 · Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore as Self
- 2008 · Il falso bugiardo as Self
- 2007 · Linee d'ombra as Self
- 2006 · Through Children's Eyes - De Sica & Shoeshine as
- 2006 · Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City' as Self
- 2005 · Behind Love and Anger as Self - Director (segment "L'indifferenza")
- 2004 · Western all'italiana as
- 2003 · Un film et son époque as Self
- 2002 · Pope John XXIII as Pio XII
- 2001 · Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema as Self - Filmmaker
- 2001 · Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes as Narrator
- 1999 · Luchino Visconti as Self
- 1997 · Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo as Self
- 1990 · Rossellini as Self
- 1984 · Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer as Self
- 1969 · The Tough and the Mighty as Journalist (uncredited)
- 1968 · The Violent Four as Police official (uncredited)
- 1946 · Outcry as Don Camillo, il prete