Carlo Lizzani

Carlo Lizzani

born on 3/4/1922 in Roma, Lazio, Italy

died on 5/10/2013 in Roma, Lazio, Italy

Carlo Lizzani

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Carlo Lizzani

Lizzani (left) on the set of Celluloide (Rome, 1996)
Born April 3 1922
Rome, Italy
Died 5 October 2013 (aged 91)
Rome, Italy
Occupation Film director
Screenwriter

Carlo Lizzani (3 April 1922 – 5 October 2013)[1] was an Italian film director, screenwriter and critic.

Born in Rome, after World War II Lizzani worked as a scenarist on such films of as Roberto Rossellini's Germany Year Zero, Alberto Lattuada's The Mill on the Po (both 1948) and Giuseppe De Santis' Bitter Rice (1949), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Story.

After directing documentaries, he debuted as a feature director with the admired World War II drama Achtung! Banditi! (1951). 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 crime-comedy Roma Bene (1971). His film L'oro di Roma (1961) examined events around the final deportation of the Jews of Rome and the Roman roundup, grande razzia, of October 1943.[2] For his 1968 film Bandits in Milan he won a David di Donatello award as best director and a Nastro d'Argento award for best screenplay. [3]

Lizzani worked frequently for Italian television in the 1980s and supervised the Venice International Film Festival for four editions, from 1979 to 1982.[4] In 1994 Lizzani was a member of the jury at the Berlin Film Festival.[5]

For his 1996 film Celluloide, which deals with the making of Rome, Open City, he received another David di Donatello award for his screenplay. [3]

He committed suicide in Rome at the age of 91, when he jumped from the balcony of his home in Via dei Gracchi on 5 October 2013.[1]

Filmography

  • Viaggio al sud, documentary (1949)
  • Via Emilia Km 147, documentary (1949)
  • Nel Mezzogiorno qualcosa è cambiata, documentary (1950)
  • Modena, città dell'Emilia Rossa, documentary (1950)
  • Achtung! Banditi! (1951)
  • Ai margini della metropoli, coregia di Massimo Mida (1952)
  • L'amore che si paga, episode of the film L'amore in città (1953)
  • Cronache di poveri amanti (1953)
  • Siluri umani, uncredited - Antonio Leonviola and Marc-Antonio Bragadin (1954)
  • Lo svitato (1955)
  • La muraglia cinese (1958)
  • Esterina (1959)
  • Il gobbo (1960)
  • Carabiniere a cavallo (1961)
  • L'oro di Roma (1961)
  • La vita agra (1963)
  • Il processo di Verona (1963)
  • Amori pericolosi (1964)
  • La Celestina P... R... (1964)
  • La guerra segreta (1965)
  • Thrilling (segment "L'autostrada del Sole", 1965)
  • Requiescant (1966)
  • Svegliati e uccidi (1966)
  • Un fiume di dollari (1967)
  • L'amante di Gramigna (1968)
  • Banditi a Milano (1968)
  • Barbagia (1969)
  • Amore e rabbia (1969)
  • Roma Bene (1971)
  • Torino nera (1972)
  • Crazy Joe (1973)
  • Mussolini ultimo atto (1974)
  • Storie di vita e di malavita (1975)
  • Un delitto inutile (1976)
  • Kleinhoff hotel (1977)
  • Fontamara (1980)
  • La casa del tappeto giallo (1983)
  • Mamma Ebe (1985)
  • Un'isola (1986)
  • Caro Gorbaciov (1988)
  • 12 registi per 12 città (1989) documentary
  • Cattiva (1991)
  • Celluloide (1996)
  • Luchino Visconti (1999) documentary
  • Cesare Zavattini (2002) documentary
  • Napoli, Napoli, Napoli (2006) documentary
  • Agusta-Westland, un primato italiano (2007) documentary
  • Hotel Meina (2007)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Lizzani choc: si è lanciato dal terzo piano. Biglietto ai figli: «Stacco la spina», Corriere della Sera, October 5, 2013. URL accessed on October 6, 2013.
  2. i-italy, January 28 2010, [1]
  3. 3.0 3.1 Enrico Lancia. I premi del cinema, Gremese Editore, 1998.
  4. Irene Bignardi, , Carlo Lizzani, addio al signore del cinema italiano, 5 October 2013. URL accessed on 5 October 2013.
  5. Berlinale: 1994 Juries. berlinale.de. Retrieved on 2011-06-09.

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