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Carlo Lizzani

Director

Carlo Lizzani

Born April 3, 1922 in Rome, Lazio, ItalyDied October 5, 201358 films

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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It's a Hard Life posterFirst watchIt's a Hard Life19646.6Luciano Bianchi lives with his wife and son in the small town of Guastalla. As an intellectual and bibliophile, he works as head of cultural initiatives at a mining plant.View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
Love in the City poster6.5Love in the City1953The Last Four Days poster6.3The Last Four Days1974

Filmography

58 films as director
  1. 2012ScossaDirector
  2. 2008Luchino Visconti: Life as in a NovelDirector
  3. 2008All Human Rights for AllDirector
  4. 2008Hotel MeinaDirector
  5. 2008Giuseppe De SantisDirector
  6. 2003Cesare ZavattiniDirector
  7. 2002Luchino ViscontiDirector
  8. 2001Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and JokesDirector
  9. 1999La Donna del TrenoDirector
  10. 1996CelluloideDirector
  11. 1995Rome, November 12, 1994Director
  12. 1994Stato d'emergenza - Il caso DozierDirector
  13. 1991The WickedDirector
  14. 198912 Directors for 12 CitiesDirector
  15. 1988Dear GorbachevDirector
  16. 1987Assicurazione sulla morteDirector
  17. 1985Mother EbeDirector
  18. 1984Nucleo ZeroDirector
  19. 1984Farewell to Enrico BerlinguerDirector
  20. 1984SabatoventiquattromarzoDirector
  21. 1983The House of the Yellow CarpetDirector
  22. 1983Inverno di malatoDirector
  23. 1983VeneziaDirector
  24. 1980FontamaraDirector
  25. 1977Kleinhoff HotelDirector
  26. 1976San Babila-8 P.M.Director
  27. 1975The Teenage Prostitution RacketDirector
  28. 1974The Last Four DaysDirector
  29. 1974Crazy JoeDirector
  30. 1972Black TurinDirector
  31. 1971Roma beneDirector
  32. 1969The Tough and the MightyDirector
  33. 1969Love and AngerDirector
  34. 1969The BanditDirector
  35. 1968The Violent FourDirector
  36. 1967Kill and PrayDirector
  37. 1966The Hills Run RedDirector
  38. 1966Wake Up and DieDirector
  39. 1965ThrillingDirector
  40. 1965The Dirty GameDirector
  41. 1965La Celestina P… R…Director
  42. 1964Amori pericolosiDirector
  43. 1964It's a Hard LifeDirector
  44. 1963The Verona TrialDirector
  45. 1961Gold of RomeDirector
  46. 1961The Policeman on HorsebackDirector
  47. 1960The HunchbackDirector
  48. 1959EsterinaDirector
  49. 1958Behind the Great WallDirector
  50. 1956The ScrewballDirector
  51. 1954Chronicle of Poor LoversDirector
  52. 1953Love in the CityDirector
  53. 1953Amore che si pagaDirector
  54. 1953At the Edge of the CityDirector
  55. 1951Attention! Bandits!Director
  56. 1950Something Changed in MiddayDirector
  57. 1950Modena, una città dell'Emilia rossaDirector
  58. 1948Togliatti è ritornatoDirector