Name
Carlo Lizzani
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1922-04-03
Deathday
2013-10-05 (91 years old)
Place of Birth
Rome, Lazio, Italy
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.
Known For
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In the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, a twelve-year-old boy is left to his own devices in orde...
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Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid t...
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In 1945, the dictator of fascist Italy and Hitler's close ally Benito Mussolini faces defe...
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A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers....
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A U.S. intelligence general recalls three Cold War cases of Soviet, French and Italian spi...
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Pascale, married to an architect, misses her flight to London and is forced to stay in Ber...
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Mino and Lello, two sons of a worker wrongly accused of murder, try to find out evidence o...
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A young shepherd returns home after the Second World War having been held in a prisoner of...
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A petty hoodlum pulls jewellery store heists in broad daylight. The cop on his tail knows ...
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