Carlo Lizzani
Director
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
The Violent Four
as Police official (uncredited) 1968
Pope John XXIII
as Pio XII 2002
Outcry
as Don Camillo, il prete 1946
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
as Self - Filmmaker 2001
The Tough and the Mighty
as Journalist (uncredited) 1969
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
as Self 2017
Luchino Visconti
as Self 2002
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) 2017
Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes
as Narrator 2001
Portrait Of My Father
as Self 2010
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
as Self 2010
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
as Self 1984
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
as Self 2006
Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo
as Self 1997
Western all'italiana
2004
Noi c'eravamo
as Self 2011
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
as Self 2009