Carlo Lizzani
Director · Writer
91 years (Apr 3, 1922 – Oct 5, 2013)Rome, Lazio, Italy
Carlo Lizzani
Director · Writer
Movies: 45 titles
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The Last Four Days
1974
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The Hills Run Red
1966
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The Dirty Game
1965
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Wake Up and Die
1966
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The Teenage Prostitution Racket
1975
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Celluloide
1996
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Esterina
1959
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Black Turin
1972
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Love in the City
1953
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Dear Gorbachev
1988
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Thrilling
1965
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San Babila-8 P.M.
1976
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Kleinhoff Hotel
1977
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The Tough and the Mighty
1969
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The Violent Four
1968
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Roma bene
1971
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The Bandit
1969
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Kill and Pray
1967
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Chronicle of Poor Lovers
1954
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The House of the Yellow Carpet
1983
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Attention! Bandits!
1951
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At the Edge of the City
1953
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Love and Anger
1969
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Mother Ebe
1985
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The Policeman on Horseback
1961
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Crazy Joe
1974
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Gold of Rome
1961
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Hotel Meina
2008
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The Verona Trial
1963
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It's a Hard Life
1964
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The Hunchback
1960
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The Screwball
1956
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Fontamara
1980
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Carlo Lizzani still alive?
Carlo Lizzani passed away on October 5, 2013 at age 91.
What are the most famous roles of Carlo Lizzani?
Carlo Lizzani is best known for directing Germany, Year Zero, Bitter Rice, Love in the City.
How many movies has Carlo Lizzani directed?
Over a 67-year career (since 1946), Carlo Lizzani has directed or written 45 films and worked on 2 TV shows.
What was Carlo Lizzani's first movie?
The career of Carlo Lizzani began with Outcry (1946).
What is Carlo Lizzani's most recent movie or series?
Carlo Lizzani's most recent release is We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism, which premiered on September 1, 2013.
What TV shows has Carlo Lizzani created or directed?
On television, Carlo Lizzani has appeared in Le cinque giornate di Milano, Maria Josè, l'ultima regina, Un’isola.
Carlo Lizzani
1922-04-03 · Rome, Lazio, Italy
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.