Carlo Lizzani

Carlo Lizzani (left) with Steve Scott on the set of Celluloid  (1996)

Carlo Lizzani (born April 3, 1922 in Rome , † October 5, 2013 there ) was an Italian film director , screenwriter and actor .

Life

Lizzani began as a film critic for periodicals such as "Cinema" and "Bianco e Nero" and worked as an essayist and author. In 1946 he began his active work on films with the script and a role in Il sole sorge ancora , which was continued in the following years with documentary works. In Germany in the year zero by Roberto Rossellini , Die Mühle am Po (Il mulino del Po) by Alberto Lattuada (both 1948) or Bitterer Reis (1950) by Giuseppe De Santis , for which he was also nominated for an Oscar for best Original story received were successful scripts from his pen. His first film as a director was the war drama Achtung! Banditi! (1951). He then made films of various genres, but mainly crime films , almost all of which were successful and designed with remarkable narrative means and each took up current topics of Italian society or history - crime, organized gangs, youth violence, prostitution, terrorism.

In the 1980s he worked a lot for Italian television; In 1994 he was a member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival .

His film Celluloide has been described as an outstanding late work. It deals with the declaration of Rome as an Open City. In 1999 he made a documentary about the life and work of the director Luchino Visconti .

On October 5, 2013, he killed himself by falling from his apartment in central Rome itself .

Awards

• Order of Merit of the Italian Republic , 1996: Grand Officer, 2002: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

Movies

Director

• 1951: Attention, Banditi! (Attention! Banditi!)
• 1952: On the edge of a big city (Ai margini della metropoli)
• 1953: love in the city (L'amore in città)
• 1954: Chronicle of poor lovers (Cronache di poveri amanti)
• 1955: Lo svitato
• 1958: Behind the Great Wall (La muraglia cinese) (documentary)
• 1959: Esterina
• 1960: The Hunchback of Rome (Il gobbo)
• 1961: The mounted carbine (Il carabiniere a cavallo)
• 1961: L'oro di Roma
• 1963: Il processo di Verona
• 1964: Amori pericolosi (segment: La ronda )
• 1964: The sour life (La vita agra)
• 1965: La celestina P… R…
• 1965: Thrilling (segment: L'autostrada del sole )
• 1965: The Dirty Game (The Dirty Game) (co-director)
• 1966: A flood of dollars (Un fiume di dollari)
• 1966: Fire Dance (Svegliati e uccidi)
• 1966: May they rest in peace (Requiescant)
• 1968: The Bandits of Milan (Banditi a Milano)
• 1969: love and anger (Amore e rabbia)
• 1969: The blue-eyed bandit (Barbagia (La società del malessere))
• 1971: Roma Bene - Love and Sex in Rome (Roma bene)
• 1972: The Sicilian (Torino nera)
• 1974: Will in lead (Crazy Joe)
• 1974: Mussolini - The Last Days (Mussolini ultimo atto)
• 1975: Street Girls Report (Storie di vita e malavita)
• 1977: Kleinhoff Hotel
• 1980: Fontamara
• 1983: The yellow carpet (La casa del tappeto giallo)
• 1985: Mamma Ebe
• 1985: The Island (Un'isola) (TV movie)
• 1987: Death of a Psychopath (Série noire: Cause à l'autre) (TV series, one episode)
• 1988: Caro Gorbaciov
• 1991: Hopeless Love (Cattiva)
• 1993: Time of Fear (Il caso Dozier) (TV movie)
• 1996: celluloid (celluloids)
• 1999: Luchino Visconti (documentary)
• 2003: Operazione Appia Antica
• 2005: La passione di Angela
• 2007: Hotel Meina

Screenplay (selection)

• 1948: Germany in the year zero (Germania anno zero)
• 1949: bitter rice (Riso amaro)
• 1962: The Lost Legion (Orazie e curiazi)
• 1986: The Devils of Monza (La monaca di Monza)

Actor (selection)

• 2002: A Life for Peace - Pope John XXIII. (Papa Giovanni - Ioannes XXIII)

Web links

• Carlo Lizzani in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Carlo Lizzani on MyMovies (Italian).

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Antonio Pitoni: Cinema, Carlo Lizzani è morto suicida. La Stampa.it, October 5, 2013 (Italian)
2. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. I registers. Gremese Editore, Rome 2002, p. 244
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