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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 ForDirecting
  • Born3 April 1922 (age 103)
  • Place of BirthRome, Lazio, Italy

Carlo Lizzani

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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.

  • Known ForDirecting
  • Born3 April 1922 (age 103)
  • Place of BirthRome, Lazio, Italy
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Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
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6.5
2017
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Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
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5.2
2017
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Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione
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2014
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Sperduti nel buio
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2014
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We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism
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2013
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Scossa
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2012
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Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni
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2012
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The Years of Lost Images
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2012
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Mr. Teddy
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2012
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Voi siete qui
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2011
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A Dream of Women
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2011
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Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
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2011
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Noi c'eravamo
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10.0
2011
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Portrait Of My Father
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7.3
2010
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Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
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6.2
2010
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Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
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7.0
2009
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Hotel Meina
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6.0
2008
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Giuseppe De Santis
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6.0
2008
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Luchino Visconti: Life as in a Novel
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2008
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All Human Rights for All
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2008
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Il falso bugiardo
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2008
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Linee d'ombra
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2007
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Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
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7.0
2006
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Through Children's Eyes - De Sica & Shoeshine
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2006
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Behind Love and Anger
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2005
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Le cinque giornate di Milano
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2004
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Western all'italiana
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4.0
2004
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Cesare Zavattini
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2003
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Maria Josè, l'ultima regina
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6.8
2002
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Luchino Visconti
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6.2
2002
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Pope John XXIII
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6.889
2002
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Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes
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6.5
2001
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Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
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5.8
2001
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La Donna del Treno
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1999
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Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo
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7.0
1997
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Celluloide
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6.6
1996
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Rome, November 12, 1994
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1995
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The Wicked
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8.0
1991
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Rossellini
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1990
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12 Directors for 12 Cities
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5.0
1989
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Dear Gorbachev
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3.5
1988
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Assicurazione sulla morte
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6.3
1987
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Mother Ebe
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4.6
1985
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Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier
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5.0
1984
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Nucleo Zero
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1984
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Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
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6.2
1984
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Sabatoventiquattromarzo
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1984
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Venezia
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1983
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The House of the Yellow Carpet
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5.4
1983
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Inverno di malato
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1983
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Fontamara
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6.2
1980
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Kleinhoff Hotel
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6.0
1977
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San Babila-8 P.M.
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6.324
1976
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The Teenage Prostitution Racket
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5.1
1975
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The Last Four Days
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6.231
1974
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Crazy Joe
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6.0
1974
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Black Turin
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5.2
1972
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Roma bene
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6.0
1971
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Love and Anger
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5.2
1969
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The Tough and the Mighty
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6.1
1969
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The Bandit
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5.9
1969
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The Violent Four
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6.6
1968
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Black Jesus
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5.4
1968
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Kill and Pray
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6.4
1967
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The Hills Run Red
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5.8
1966
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Wake Up and Die
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6.1
1966
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Thrilling
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5.5
1965
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The Dirty Game
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5.8
1965
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La Celestina P… R…
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1965
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It's a Hard Life
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6.575
1964
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Amori pericolosi
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1964
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The Verona Trial
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6.3
1963
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The Policeman on Horseback
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5.8
1961
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Gold of Rome
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6.563
1961
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The Hunchback
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6.2
1960
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Esterina
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4.7
1959
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Behind the Great Wall
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1958
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The Screwball
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5.8
1956
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Chronicle of Poor Lovers
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6.615
1954
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Love in the City
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6.564
1953
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At the Edge of the City
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6.5
1953
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Amore che si paga
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1953
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Attention! Bandits!
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5.981
1951
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Something Changed in Midday
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1950
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Togliatti è ritornato
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1948
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Outcry
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6.357
1946