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Carlo Lizzani
Writer, Director, Producer, Actor, Additional Credits
Born April 3, 1922Died October 5, 2013 (91 years)
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
Carlo Lizzani Filmography
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| 1996 | Celluloide · as Screenplay |
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| 1980 | Fontamara · as Screenplay |
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| 1974 | The Last 4 Days · as Screenplay |
| 1971 | Roma bene · as Screenplay |
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| 1968 | The Violent Four · as Screenplay |
| 1967 | Requiescant · as Screenplay |
| 1964 | It's a Hard Life · as Screenplay |
| 1961 | Gold of Rome · as Screenplay |
| 1961 | Duel of Champions · as Screenplay |
| 1960 | The Hunchback of Rome · as Screenplay |
| 1956 | |
| 1954 | Siluri umani · as Screenplay |
| 1954 | Chronicle of Poor Lovers · as Screenplay |
| 1953 | |
| 1951 | Attention! Bandits! · as Screenplay |
| 1950 | |
| 1950 | Under the Olive Tree · as Screenplay |
| 1948 | Germany Year Zero · as Screenplay |
| 1947 | Tragic Hunt · as Screenplay |
| 1946 | Outcry · as Screenplay |
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| 1984 | Black Sequence (TV Series) |
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| 2002 | Pope John XXIII · as Pio Xii |
| 2001 | Roberto Rossellini: Frammenti e battute · as Narrator |
| 1991 | Barocco · as Filippo |
| 1969 | The Tough and the Mighty · as Journalist (uncredited) |
| 1968 | The Violent Four · as Police Official (uncredited) |
| 1947 | Tragic Hunt · as Il Reduce Che Tiene Un Comizio |
| 1946 | Outcry · as Don Camillo, Il Prete |
| 2017 | Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts · as Self - Filmmaker (archive Footage) |
| 2016 | Water and Sugar · as Self |
| 2005 | Elio Petri... appunti su un autore · as Self |
| 2003 | Il était une fois... (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2001 | Sergio Leone: Cinema, Cinema · as Self - Filmmaker |
| 1999 | Luchino Visconti · as Self |
| 1984 | Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer · as Self |
| 1975 | Arena (1975) (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2001 | Roberto Rossellini: Frammenti e battute · as Screen Story |
| 1966 | Wake Up and Die · as Story |
| 1949 | Bitter Rice · as Story |
| 1949 | The Mill on the Po · as First Assistant Director |
| 1948 | Germany Year Zero · as Assistant Director |
| 1947 | Tragic Hunt · as Co-Director |