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.
Chronicle of Poor Lovers
To Arms, We Are Fascists!
Gold of Rome
Germany, Year Zero
Bitter Rice
Love in the City
Mother Ebe
Black Turin
Love and Anger
The Last Four Days
Attention! Bandits!
The Violent Four
Kleinhoff Hotel
It's a Hard Life
The House of the Yellow Carpet
The Hills Run Red
Black Jesus
The Screwball
The Teenage Prostitution Racket
The Devils of Monza
