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Carlo Lizzani

Carlo Lizzani

Known For Directing
Birthday Apr 03, 1922
Died Oct 05, 2013 (91)
Birthplace Rome, Lazio, Italy
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Updated Feb 10, 2025
Entry Date Apr 20, 2024
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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 whi ... ch 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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Crazy Joe

Crazy Joe

1974

Director

The Hills Run Red

The Hills Run Red

1966

Director

The Dirty Game

The Dirty Game

1965

Director

Behind the Great Wall

Behind the Great Wall

1958

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Un film et son époque

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Episodes: 1

First Aired: May 17, 2003

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