Carlo Lizzani

Carlo Lizzani ( born April 3, 1922 in Rome, † October 5, 2013 ) 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. 1946 began with the script and a role in Il sole custody ancora his active work on films with documentary works was continued in the coming years. In Germany Year Zero by Roberto Rossellini, The Mill on the Po ( Il mulino del Po) Alberto Lattuada (both 1948), or Bitter Rice (1950 ) by Giuseppe De Santis, for which he best also nominated for the Academy Award for received original story, were successful screenplays from his pen. His first film as a director was the war drama Attention! Banditi! ( 1951). He then made ​​films of different genres, but mainly crime films, designed almost all successful and with remarkable narrative techniques and the current issues of Italian society, or history of taking up - crime, organized gangs, youth violence, prostitution, terrorism.

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

His film Celluloide was designated as an outstanding late work. It deals with the declaration of Rome to Open City. In 1999 he realized a documentary about the life and work of the director Luchino Visconti.

On October 5, 2013, killed by a fall from his apartment in the center of Rome itself

Aszeichnungen

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

Movies

Direction

Screenplay (selection)

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