Carlo Lizzani

Known for DirectingBorn 1922-04-03Died 2013-10-05Rome, Lazio, Italy

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Noi c'eravamo

Un film et son époque

La Donna del Treno

Something Changed in Midday

The Wicked

Portrait Of My Father

The Verona Trial

Germany, Year Zero

Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad

Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'

Human Torpedoes

Le cinque giornate di Milano

Luchino Visconti

Maria Josè, l'ultima regina

Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes

Bitter Rice

Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo

Fontamara

Pope John XXIII

Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier

Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts

To Arms, We Are Fascists!

Thrilling

La Celestina P… R…

Under the Olive Tree

Amori pericolosi

Behind the Great Wall

Celluloide

At the Edge of the City

Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema

Crazy Joe

Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore

Chronicle of Poor Lovers

It's a Hard Life

The Violent Four

The Hunchback

The Screwball

Gold of Rome

Outcry

Love in the City

Hotel Meina

Giuseppe De Santis

Tragic Hunt

San Babila-8 P.M.

The Tough and the Mighty

Kill and Pray

The Last Four Days