
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.

Un film et son époque
TV • 2003

Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione
MOVIE • 2014

Outcry
MOVIE • 1946

Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
MOVIE • 2011

Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
MOVIE • 2010

Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
MOVIE • 2001

Voi siete qui
MOVIE • 2011

Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
MOVIE • 2017

Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
MOVIE • 2017

The Tough and the Mighty
MOVIE • 1969

The Violent Four
MOVIE • 1968

Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
MOVIE • 1984

Pope John XXIII
MOVIE • 2002

Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
MOVIE • 2006

Uomini forti
MOVIE • 2006

Behind Love and Anger
MOVIE • 2005

Luchino Visconti
MOVIE • 2002

Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes
MOVIE • 2001