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person_profile-Carlo Lizzani

Carlo Lizzani Died at age: 91

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Carlo Lizzani

Date of Birth:

Apr 03, 1922

Country of birth:

Italy

Died:

Oct 05, 2013

Biography of

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.

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Carlo Lizzani

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Filmography of

Carlo Lizzani

Found 16 Movies in total

Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2017

Sperduti nel buio

Himself ( Actor )

... 2014

We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism

Narrator / Self ( Actor )

Writer

... 2013

... 2012

... 2010

... 2009

Il falso bugiardo

Self ( Actor )

... 2008

... 2006

... 2005

Pope John XXIII

Pio XII ( Actor )

... 2002

Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes

Narrator ( Actor )

Director

... 2001

Luchino Visconti

Self ( Actor )

Writer

... 1999

Rossellini

Self ( Actor )

... 1990

Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

Self ( Actor )

Director

... 1984

The Tough and the Mighty

Journalist (uncredited) ( Actor )

Writer

... 1969

The Violent Four

Police official (uncredited) ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 1968