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Carlo Lizzani
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
Luchino Visconti
as Self
The Violent Four
as Police official (uncredited)
Pope John XXIII
as Pio XII
Noi c'eravamo
as Self
The Tough and the Mighty
as Journalist (uncredited)
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
as Self
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
as Self
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
as Self - Filmmaker
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
as Self
