Carlo Lizzani
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
- ^ A b Antonio Pitoni: Cinema, Carlo Lizzani è morto suicida. La Stampa.it, October 5, 2013 (Italian)
- ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. I registers. Gremese Editore, Rome 2002, p. 244
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personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lizzani, Carlo |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian film director and screenwriter |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1922 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |
DATE OF DEATH | 5th October 2013 |
Place of death | Rome |