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.

Known For: Directing

Born: Rome, Lazio, Italy, 1922-04-03

Died: 2013-10-05

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1946	Outcry	Don Camillo, il prete	64
2	1968	The Violent Four	Police official (uncredited)	66
3	1969	The Tough and the Mighty	Journalist (uncredited)	61
4	1984	Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer	Self	62
5	1990	Rossellini	Self	0
6	1997	Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo	Self	70
7	2001	Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes	Narrator	65
8	2001	Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema	Self - Filmmaker	58
9	2002	Pope John XXIII	Pio XII	69
10	2002	Luchino Visconti	Self	62
11	2004	Western all'italiana		40
12	2005	Behind Love and Anger	Self - Director (segment "L'indifferenza")	0
13	2006	Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'	Self	70
14	2006	Through Children's Eyes - De Sica & Shoeshine		0
15	2007	Linee d'ombra	Self	0
16	2008	Il falso bugiardo	Self	0
17	2009	Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad	Self	70
18	2010	Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore	Self	62
19	2010	Portrait Of My Father	Self	73
20	2011	A Dream of Women	Self	0
21	2011	Voi siete qui	Self	0
22	2011	Noi c'eravamo	Self	100
23	2011	Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane	Self	0
24	2012	The Years of Lost Images	Self	0
25	2012	Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni	Self	0
26	2012	Mr. Teddy		0
27	2013	We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism	Narrator / Self	0
28	2014	Sperduti nel buio	Himself	0
29	2014	Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione	Self	0
30	2017	Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life	Self	52
31	2017	Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts	Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)	65

Carlo Lizzani

Film

Television