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Carlo Lizzani

1922-04-03

The 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, 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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Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore

6.2 average rating
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The Violent Four

6.5 average rating
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Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts

6.3 average rating
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Luchino Visconti

6.2 average rating
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Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema

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Pope John XXIII

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Voi siete qui

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Il falso bugiardo

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Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

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Western all'italiana

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The Years of Lost Images

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The Tough and the Mighty

6.1 average rating
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Behind Love and Anger

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Outcry

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

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Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni

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Linee d'ombra

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Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes

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Portrait Of My Father

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A Dream of Women

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