- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- April 3, 1922
- Place of Birth
- Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Died
- October 5, 2013
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 dea…
Filmography
movieCinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
2017 · Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
movieWater and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017 · Self
movieGian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione
2014 · Self
movieSperduti nel buio
2014 · Himself
movieWe Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism
2013 · Narrator / Self, Writer
movieMr. Teddy
2012
movieGiuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni
2012 · Self
movieThe Years of Lost Images
2012 · Self
movieScossa
2012 · Director
movieGiovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
2011 · Self
movieNoi c'eravamo
2011 · Self
movieVoi siete qui
2011 · Self
A Dream of Women
movieA Dream of Women
2011 · Self
moviePortrait Of My Father
2010 · Self
movieVittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
2010 · Self
moviePietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
2009 · Self
Luchino Visconti: Life as in a Novel
movieLuchino Visconti: Life as in a Novel
2008 · Director
movieAll Human Rights for All
2008 · Director, Writer
movieIl falso bugiardo
2008 · Self
movieHotel Meina
2008 · Director, Writer
Giuseppe De Santis
movieGiuseppe De Santis
2008 · Director
movieLinee d'ombra
2007 · Self
movieUomini forti
2006 · Self
Through Children's Eyes - De Sica & Shoeshine
movieThrough Children's Eyes - De Sica & Shoeshine
2006
movieOnce Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
2006 · Self
movieBehind Love and Anger
2005 · Self - Director (segment "L'indifferenza"), Thanks
tvLe cinque giornate di Milano
2004 · Director, Creator
Western all'italiana
movieWestern all'italiana
2004
tvUn film et son époque
2003 · Self
movieCesare Zavattini
2003 · Director
movieLuchino Visconti
2002 · Self, Writer, Director
tvMaria Josè, l'ultima regina
2002 · Director, Screenplay, Story
moviePope John XXIII
2002 · Pio XII
movieSergio Leone: cinema, cinema
2001 · Self - Filmmaker
movieRoberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes
2001 · Narrator, Director
movieLa Donna del Treno
1999 · Director
Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo
movieRoberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo
1997 · Self
movieCelluloide
1996 · Director, Screenplay
Rome, November 12, 1994
movieRome, November 12, 1994
1995 · Director
movieThe Wicked
1991 · Director
movieRossellini
1990 · Self
movie12 Directors for 12 Cities
1989 · Director
movieDear Gorbachev
1988 · Screenplay, Director
movieThe Devils of Monza
1987 · Writer
movieAssicurazione sulla morte
1987 · Director
movieMother Ebe
1985 · Director, Writer
Nucleo Zero
movieNucleo Zero
1984 · Screenplay, Director, Writer
movieStato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier
1984 · Director
movieFarewell to Enrico Berlinguer
1984 · Self, Director
movieSabatoventiquattromarzo
1984 · Director
movieThe House of the Yellow Carpet
1983 · Director
movieInverno di malato
1983 · Director, Writer
Venezia
movieVenezia
1983 · Director
movieFontamara
1980 · Director, Screenplay
movieKleinhoff Hotel
1977 · Director
movieSan Babila-8 P.M.
1976 · Director, Writer
movieThe Teenage Prostitution Racket
1975 · Director, Writer
movieThe Last Four Days
1974 · Director, Screenplay
movieCrazy Joe
1974 · Director
movieBlack Turin
1972 · Director
movieRoma bene
1971 · Director, Screenplay
movieThe Tough and the Mighty
1969 · Journalist (uncredited), Director, Writer
movieLove and Anger
1969 · Producer, Director, Writer
movieThe Bandit
1969 · Director, Writer
movieBlack Jesus
1968 · Producer
movieThe Violent Four
1968 · Police official (uncredited), Director, Screenplay, Story
movieKill and Pray
1967 · Producer, Director
movieThe Hills Run Red
1966 · Director
movieWake Up and Die
1966 · Director, Producer
movieThrilling
1965 · Director
movieThe Dirty Game
1965 · Director
movieLa Celestina P… R…
1965 · Screenplay, Director
movieAmori pericolosi
1964 · Writer, Director
movieIt's a Hard Life
1964 · Director, Screenplay
movieThe Verona Trial
1963 · Director
movieTo Arms, We Are Fascists!
1962 · Thanks
movieGold of Rome
1961 · Director, Story, Screenplay
movieDuel of Champions
1961 · Screenplay
movieThe Policeman on Horseback
1961 · Director
movieThe Hunchback
1960 · Director, Screenplay
movieEsterina
1959 · Director
movieBehind the Great Wall
1958 · Director
movieThe Screwball
1956 · Director, Writer
movieHuman Torpedoes
1954 · Screenplay
movieChronicle of Poor Lovers
1954 · Director, Screenplay
movieLove in the City
1953 · Director
Amore che si paga
movieAmore che si paga
1953 · Director
movieAt the Edge of the City
1953 · Director, Writer
movieAttention! Bandits!
1951 · Director, Story, Screenplay
Something Changed in Midday
movieSomething Changed in Midday
1950 · Director
movieUnder the Olive Tree
1950 · Screenplay
Modena, una città dell'Emilia rossa
movieModena, una città dell'Emilia rossa
1950 · Director
movieBitter Rice
1949 · Story, Screenplay
movieThe Mill on the Po
1949 · First Assistant Director
movieGermany, Year Zero
1948 · Assistant Director, Screenplay
Togliatti è ritornato
movieTogliatti è ritornato
1948 · Screenplay, Director
movieTragic Hunt
1947 · Co-Director, Screenplay, Story
movieOutcry
1946 · Don Camillo, il prete, Screenplay