Carlo Lizzani

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1922-04-03 (91 years old)

Deathday

2013-10-05

Place of Birth

Rome, Lazio, Italy

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, nota...

Production

1953

Love in the City

as Director

1969

Love and Anger

as Producer

1974

1985

Mother Ebe

as Director

1972

Black Turin

as Director

1969

Love and Anger

as Director

1964

It's a Hard Life

as Director

1977

Kleinhoff Hotel

as Director

1954

Human Torpedoes

as Screenplay

1951

1968

The Violent Four

as Director

1951

Attention! Bandits!

as Screenplay

1968

The Violent Four

as Screenplay

1983

Venezia

as Director

1949

Bitter Rice

as Story

1966

1968

Black Jesus

as Producer

1971

Roma bene

as Director

1996

Celluloide

as Director

1976

1956

The Screwball

as Director

1963

The Verona Trial

as Director

1974

Crazy Joe

as Director

1967

Kill and Pray

as Producer

1967

Kill and Pray

as Director

1965

Thrilling

as Director

1966

Wake Up and Die

as Director

1961

Gold of Rome

as Director

1950

1947

Tragic Hunt

as Co-Director

1947

Tragic Hunt

as Screenplay

1946

Outcry

as Screenplay

1969

The Bandit

as Director

2008

Hotel Meina

as Director

1991

The Wicked

as Director

1988

Dear Gorbachev

as Screenplay

1988

Dear Gorbachev

as Director

1960

The Hunchback

as Director

1960

The Hunchback

as Screenplay

1965

The Dirty Game

as Director

1956

The Screwball

as Writer

1980

Fontamara

as Director

2008

1959

Esterina

as Director

1964

It's a Hard Life

as Screenplay

1961

Gold of Rome

as Story

1961

Gold of Rome

as Screenplay

1987

1980

Fontamara

as Screenplay

1965

1969

1964

1964

Amori pericolosi

as Director

1983

1983

1949

The Mill on the Po

as First Assistant Director

1974

The Last Four Days

as Screenplay

1947

Tragic Hunt

as Story

1949

Bitter Rice

as Screenplay

1953

2012

Scossa

as Director

1958

1968

1971

Roma bene

as Screenplay

1999

2002

2002

Luchino Visconti

as Director

1965

2003

Cesare Zavattini

as Director

1984

Nucleo Zero

as Screenplay

1984

Nucleo Zero

as Director

1984

Nucleo Zero

as Writer

1948

1948

Germany, Year Zero

as Assistant Director

1961

Duel of Champions

as Screenplay

2008

Hotel Meina

as Screenplay

1948

1948

1985

Mother Ebe

as Writer

1969

The Bandit

as Writer

1966

Wake Up and Die

as Producer

1954

1996

Celluloide

as Screenplay

1976

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