Carlo Lizzani

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.

Directed

1. Love in the City (1953) — Director
2. The Last Four Days (1974) — Director
3. It's a Hard Life (1964) — Director
4. The Violent Four (1968) — Director
5. San Babila-8 P.M. (1976) — Director
6. Attention! Bandits! (1951) — Director
7. Chronicle of Poor Lovers (1954) — Director
8. Kill and Pray (1967) — Director
9. Love and Anger (1969) — Director
10. The Hills Run Red (1966) — Director
11. Black Turin (1972) — Director
12. The Teenage Prostitution Racket (1975) — Director
13. The House of the Yellow Carpet (1983) — Director
14. Roma bene (1971) — Director
15. Kleinhoff Hotel (1977) — Director
16. Wake Up and Die (1966) — Director
17. The Dirty Game (1965) — Director
18. The Policeman on Horseback (1961) — Director
19. Gold of Rome (1961) — Director
20. Mother Ebe (1985) — Director
21. The Hunchback (1960) — Director
22. 12 Directors for 12 Cities (1989) — Director
23. Crazy Joe (1974) — Director
24. Esterina (1959) — Director
25. Celluloide (1996) — Director
26. The Tough and the Mighty (1969) — Director
27. The Bandit (1969) — Director
28. Hotel Meina (2008) — Director
29. At the Edge of the City (1953) — Director
30. The Screwball (1956) — Director
31. Thrilling (1965) — Director
32. Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes (2001) — Director
33. Luchino Visconti (2002) — Director
34. Assicurazione sulla morte (1987) — Director
35. The Verona Trial (1963) — Director
36. Dear Gorbachev (1988) — Director
37. Fontamara (1980) — Director
38. Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer (1984) — Director
39. The Wicked (1991) — Director
40. Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier (1984) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Violent Four (1968) — Police official (uncredited)
2. Pope John XXIII (2002) — Pio XII
3. Outcry (1946) — Don Camillo, il prete
4. Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema (2001) — Self - Filmmaker
5. The Tough and the Mighty (1969) — Journalist (uncredited)
6. Luchino Visconti (2002) — Self
7. Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes (2001) — Narrator
8. Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life (2017) — Self
9. Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts (2017) — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
10. Portrait Of My Father (2010) — Self
11. Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore (2010) — Self
12. Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer (1984) — Self
13. Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City' (2006) — Self
14. Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo (1997) — Self
15. Western all'italiana (2004)
16. Noi c'eravamo (2011) — Self
17. Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad (2009) — Self
18. Un film et son époque (2003) — Self
19. Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione (2014) — Self
20. Linee d'ombra (2007) — Self
21. Voi siete qui (2011) — Self
22. Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni (2012) — Self
23. The Years of Lost Images (2012) — Self
24. We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism (2013) — Narrator / Self
25. A Dream of Women (2011) — Self
26. Sperduti nel buio (2014) — Himself
27. Il falso bugiardo (2008) — Self
28. Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane (2011) — Self
29. Behind Love and Anger (2005) — Self - Director (segment "L'indifferenza")
30. Through Children's Eyes - De Sica & Shoeshine (2006)
31. Rossellini (1990) — Self
32. Mr. Teddy (2012)
33. Uomini forti (2006) — Self