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Carlo Lizzani

Director • Born 1922

Carlo Lizzani

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About

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...

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The Last Four Days posterThe Last Four DaysMovie • 1974Germany, Year Zero posterGermany, Year ZeroMovie • 1948Bitter Rice posterBitter RiceMovie • 1949The Teenage Prostitution Racket posterThe Teenage Prostitution RacketMovie • 1975Black Turin posterBlack TurinMovie • 1972The Hills Run Red posterThe Hills Run RedMovie • 1966Love in the City posterLove in the CityMovie • 1953San Babila-8 P.M. posterSan Babila-8 P.M.Movie • 1976The Violent Four posterThe Violent FourMovie • 1968Chronicle of Poor Lovers posterChronicle of Poor LoversMovie • 1954The House of the Yellow Carpet posterThe House of the Yellow CarpetMovie • 1983Attention! Bandits! posterAttention! Bandits!Movie • 1951Kill and Pray posterKill and PrayMovie • 1967Love and Anger posterLove and AngerMovie • 1969It's a Hard Life posterIt's a Hard LifeMovie • 1964