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.
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
as SelfA film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the...
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Portrait Of My Father
as SelfA labor of love documentary, in which a daughter, with the help of various talking heads, looks...
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The Violent Four
as Police official (uncredited)A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers.
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The Tough and the Mighty
as Journalist (uncredited)Based on the story of real life Sardinian bandit Graziano Mesina.
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Pope John XXIII
as Pio XIIThis is a two-part Italian television mini-series directed by Giorgio Capitani and broadcasted...
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Luchino Visconti
as SelfA chronological look at the creative life of Luchino Visconti (1906-1976). It examines his...
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Il falso bugiardo
as SelfBased upon Vincenzoni's biography, "Pane e cinema", the documentary traces the story of the...
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Outcry
as Don Camillo, il preteA neorealist tribute to the Italian resistance fighters of World War II.
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The Years of Lost Images
as SelfA documentary about director Valerio Zurlini. The "lost images" of the title are the movies...
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Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
as Self - FilmmakerThe life and work of one of the great masters of Italian cinema, Sergio Leone (1929-89); a rich...
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Sperduti nel buio
as HimselfDocumentary about the lost 1914 film "Sperduti nel buio". Film historian Denis Lotto journeys...
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Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the...
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Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes
as NarratorDocumentary about master director Roberto Rossellini, who tells details of his life and...
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Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
as SelfTelevision documentary about the making of Roberto Rossellini's 1945 film "Rome, Open City".
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Rossellini
as SelfA profile of the film director Roberto Rossellini, looking at his life, personality and films,...
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We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism
as Narrator / SelfThis short film tells the story of the most important cinema trend that Italy has ever produced...
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Behind Love and Anger
as Self - Director (segment "L'indifferenza")Documentary about the anthology film Love and Anger (1969) with interviews with Carlo Lizzani...
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