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Carlo Lizzani
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'…
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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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2017
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
Movie Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- 2017
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2014
Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione
Movie Self
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2014
Sperduti nel buio
Movie Himself
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2013
We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism
Movie Narrator / Self
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2012
Mr. Teddy
Movie
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2012
Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni
Movie Self
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2012
The Years of Lost Images
Movie Self
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2012
Scossa
Movie Director
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2011
Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
Movie Self
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2011
Noi c'eravamo
Movie Self
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2011
Voi siete qui
Movie Self
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2011
A Dream of Women
Movie Self
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2010
Portrait Of My Father
Movie Self
- 2010
- 2009
More credits
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2008
Luchino Visconti: Life as in a Novel
Movie Director
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2008
All Human Rights for All
Movie Director
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2008
Il falso bugiardo
Movie Self
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2008
Hotel Meina
Movie Director
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2008
Giuseppe De Santis
Movie Director
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2007
Linee d'ombra
Movie Self
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2006
Uomini forti
Movie Self
- 2006
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2006
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
Movie Self
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2005
Behind Love and Anger
Movie Self - Director (segment "L'indifferenza")
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2004
Le cinque giornate di Milano
TV show Director
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2004
Western all'italiana
Movie
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2003
Un film et son époque
TV show Self
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2003
Cesare Zavattini
Movie Director
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2002
Luchino Visconti
Movie Self
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2002
John XXIII: The Pope of Peace
TV show Pio XII
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2002
Maria Josè, l'ultima regina
TV show Director
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2002
Pope John XXIII
Movie Pio XII
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2001
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Movie Self - Filmmaker
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2001
Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes
Movie Narrator
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1999
La Donna del Treno
Movie Director
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1997
Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo
Movie Self
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1996
Celluloide
Movie Director
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1995
Rome, November 12, 1994
Movie Director
