Carlo Lizzani (born 1922 April 3) is an Italian film director, scriptwriter 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 Cittā. 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 the jury of the Berlin Film Festival in 1994.

His film Celluloide talks about the making of Rome, Open City.

Filmography

• Viaggio al sud, documentario (1949)
• Via Emilia Km 147, documentario (1949)
• Nel Mezzogiorno qualcosa č cambiata, documentario (1950)
• Modena, cittā dell'Emilia Rossa, documentario (1950)
• Achtung! Banditi! (1951)
• Ai margini della metropoli, coregia di Massimo Mida (1952)
• L'amore che si paga, episodio del film L'amore in cittā (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)
• L'autostrada del Sole, episodio del film Thrilling (1965)
• Requiescant (1966)
• Svegliati e uccidi (1966)
• 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 cittā (1989) documentario
• Cattiva (1991)
• Celluloide (1996)
• Luchino Visconti (1999) documentario
• Cesare Zavattini (2002) documentario
• Napoli, Napoli, Napoli (2006) documentario
• Agusta-Westland, un primato italiano (2007) documentario
• Hotel Meina (2007)

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