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.

Filmography

• 2013We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism — Narrator / Self, Writer
• 2012Mr. Teddy
• 2012Scossa — Director
• 2008All Human Rights for All — Director, Writer
• 2008Giuseppe De Santis — Director
• 2008Hotel Meina — Director, Writer
• 2008Luchino Visconti: Life as in a Novel — Director, Writer
• 2006Through Children's Eyes - De Sica & Shoeshine
• 2005Behind Love and Anger — Self - Director (segment "L'indifferenza"), Thanks
• Le cinque giornate di Milano — Director, Creator
• 2004Western all'italiana
• 2003Cesare Zavattini — Director
• John XXIII: The Pope of Peace — Pio XII
• 2002Luchino Visconti — Self, Writer, Director
• Maria Josè, l'ultima regina — Director, Screenplay, Story
• 2002Pope John XXIII — Pio XII
• 2001Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes — Narrator, Director
• 1999La Donna del Treno — Director
• 1996Celluloide — Director, Screenplay
• 1995Rome, November 12, 1994 — Director
• 1994Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier — Director
• 1991The Wicked — Director
• 198912 Directors for 12 Cities — Director
• 1988Dear Gorbachev — Screenplay, Director
• 1987Assicurazione sulla morte — Director
• 1987The Devils of Monza — Writer
• Un’isola — Director, Screenplay
• 1985Mother Ebe — Director, Writer
• 1984Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer — Self, Director
• 1984Nucleo Zero — Screenplay, Director, Writer
• 1984Sabatoventiquattromarzo — Director
• 1983Inverno di malato — Director, Writer
• 1983The House of the Yellow Carpet — Director
• 1983Venezia — Director
• 1980Fontamara — Director, Screenplay
• 1977Kleinhoff Hotel — Director
• 1976San Babila-8 P.M. — Director, Writer
• 1975The Teenage Prostitution Racket — Director, Writer
• 1974Crazy Joe — Director
• 1974The Last Four Days — Director, Screenplay
• 1972Black Turin — Director
• 1971Roma bene — Director, Screenplay
• 1969Love and Anger — Producer, Director, Writer
• 1969The Bandit — Director, Writer
• 1969The Tough and the Mighty — Journalist (uncredited), Director, Writer
• 1968Black Jesus — Producer
• 1968The Violent Four — Police official (uncredited), Director, Screenplay, Story
• 1967Kill and Pray — Producer, Director
• 1966The Hills Run Red — Director
• 1966Wake Up and Die — Director, Producer
• 1965La Celestina P… R… — Screenplay, Director
• 1965The Dirty Game — Director
• 1965Thrilling — Director
• 1964Amori pericolosi — Writer, Director
• 1964It's a Hard Life — Director, Screenplay
• 1963The Verona Trial — Director
• 1962To Arms, We Are Fascists! — Thanks
• 1961Duel of Champions — Screenplay
• 1961Gold of Rome — Director, Story, Screenplay
• 1961The Policeman on Horseback — Director
• 1960The Hunchback — Director, Screenplay
• 1959Esterina — Director
• 1958Behind the Great Wall — Director
• 1956The Screwball — Director, Writer
• 1954Chronicle of Poor Lovers — Director, Screenplay
• 1954Human Torpedoes — Screenplay
• 1953Amore che si paga — Director
• 1953At the Edge of the City — Director, Writer
• 1953Love in the City — Director
• 1951Attention! Bandits! — Director, Story, Screenplay
• 1950Modena, una città dell'Emilia rossa — Director
• 1950Something Changed in Midday — Director
• 1950Under the Olive Tree — Screenplay
• 1949Bitter Rice — Story, Screenplay
• 1949The Mill on the Po — First Assistant Director
• 1948Germany, Year Zero — Assistant Director, Screenplay
• 1948Togliatti è ritornato — Screenplay, Director
• 1947Tragic Hunt — Co-Director, Screenplay, Story
• 1946Outcry — Don Camillo, il prete, Screenplay

Appearances as themselves (21)

• 2017Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
• 2017Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life — Self
• 2014Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione — Self
• 2014Sperduti nel buio — Himself
• 2012Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni — Self
• 2012The Years of Lost Images — Self
• 2011A Dream of Women — Self
• 2011Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane — Self
• 2011Noi c'eravamo — Self
• 2011Voi siete qui — Self
• 2010Portrait Of My Father — Self
• 2010Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore — Self
• 2009Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad — Self
• 2008Il falso bugiardo — Self
• 2007Linee d'ombra — Self
• 2006Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City' — Self
• 2006Uomini forti — Self
• Un film et son époque — Self
• 2001Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema — Self - Filmmaker
• 1997Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo — Self
• 1990Rossellini — Self