Carlo Lizzani
Known for Directing · 33 credits
- Born
- 1922-04-03
- Died
- 2013-10-05
- Place of birth
- Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Also known as
- Lee W. Beaver · Карло Лидзани · Карло Лиццани
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
TV Shows (1)
Movies (32)
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
2001
as Self - Filmmaker
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017
as Self
Pope John XXIII
2002
as Pio XII
Western all'italiana
2004
Il falso bugiardo
2008
as Self
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
1984
as Self
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
2017
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
The Violent Four
1968
as Police official (uncredited)
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
2009
as Self
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
2010
as Self
The Tough and the Mighty
1969
as Journalist (uncredited)
Portrait Of My Father
2010
as Self
Noi c'eravamo
2011
as Self
Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
2011
as Self
Luchino Visconti
2002
as Self
Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes
2001
as Narrator
The Years of Lost Images
2012
as Self
Behind Love and Anger
2005
as Self - Director (segment "L'indifferenza")
Linee d'ombra
2007
as Self
Outcry
1946
as Don Camillo, il prete
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
2006
as Self
Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo
1997
as Self
Rossellini
1990
as Self
We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism
2013
as Narrator / Self
Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni
2012
as Self
Mr. Teddy
2012
Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione
2014
as Self
Sperduti nel buio
2014
as Himself
Uomini forti
2006
as Self
Voi siete qui
2011
as Self
Through Children's Eyes - De Sica & Shoeshine
2006
A Dream of Women
2011
as Self
About 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 h… With 33 credits spanning from 1946 to 2017, Carlo Lizzani has appeared in 32 films and 1 TV show.
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- Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema (2001) — as Self - Filmmaker
- Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life (2017) — as Self
- Pope John XXIII (2002) — as Pio XII
- Western all'italiana (2004)
- Il falso bugiardo (2008) — as Self
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