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 Shirtsas Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- 2014 ·Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passioneas Self
- 2014 ·Sperduti nel buioas Himself
- 2013 ·We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealismas Narrator / Self
- 2012 ·Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'annias Self
- 2012 ·The Years of Lost Imagesas Self
- 2011 ·Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovaneas Self
- 2011 ·Noi c'eravamoas Self
- 2011 ·Voi siete quias Self
- 2011 ·A Dream of Womenas Self
- 2010 ·Portrait Of My Fatheras Self
- 2010 ·Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatoreas Self
- 2008 ·Il falso bugiardoas Self
- 2007 ·Linee d'ombraas Self
- 2006 ·Through Children's Eyes - De Sica & Shoeshineas
- 2006 ·Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'as Self
- 2005 ·Behind Love and Angeras Self - Director (segment "L'indifferenza")
- 2004 ·Western all'italianaas
- 2003 ·Un film et son époqueas Self
- 2002 ·Pope John XXIIIas Pio XII
- 2001 ·Sergio Leone: cinema, cinemaas Self - Filmmaker
- 2001 ·Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokesas Narrator
- 1999 ·Luchino Viscontias Self
- 1997 ·Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomoas Self
- 1990 ·Rossellinias Self
- 1984 ·Farewell to Enrico Berlingueras Self
- 1969 ·The Tough and the Mightyas Journalist (uncredited)
- 1968 ·The Violent Fouras Police official (uncredited)
- 1946 ·Outcryas Don Camillo, il prete