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Carlo Lizzani

Carlo Lizzani

Director · 1922 – 2013 · Rome, Lazio, Italy

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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    Acqua e zucchero – Carlo Di Palma: i colori della vita

    Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life

    2017 · 5 votes

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    Papa Giovanni - Ioannes XXIII

    Pope John XXIII

    2002 · 10 votes

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    Banditi a Milano

    The Violent Four

    1968 · 38 votes

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    L'addio a Enrico Berlinguer

    Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

    1984 · 3 votes

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    Barbagia (la società del malessere)

    The Tough and the Mighty

    1969 · 7 votes

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  • Movie10.0

    Noi c'eravamo

    2011 · 1 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Luchino Visconti

    2002 · 5 votes

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    Ritratto di mio padre

    Portrait Of My Father

    2010 · 3 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Cinecittà Babilonia: sesso, droga e camicie nere

    Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts

    2017 · 4 votes

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    Pietro Germi - Il bravo, il bello, il cattivo

    Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad

    2009 · 1 votes

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    Il était une fois... « Rome, ville ouverte »

    Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'

    2006 · 1 votes

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    Roberto Rossellini: Frammenti e Battute

    Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes

    2001 · 5 votes

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    Il Sole sorge ancora

    Outcry

    1946 · 8 votes

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  • TV

    Papa Giovanni - Ioannes XXIII

    John XXIII: The Pope of Peace

    2002