Carlo Lizzani

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

The Violent Four

as Police official (uncredited)

Pope John XXIII

as Pio XII

The Tough and the Mighty

as Journalist (uncredited)

Outcry

as Don Camillo, il prete

Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema

as Self - Filmmaker

Luchino Visconti

as Self

Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts

as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes

as Narrator

Portrait Of My Father

as Self

Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore

as Self