Carlo Lizzani
Carlo Lizzani | |
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Born | |
Died | 5 October 2013 Rome, Italy | (aged 91)
Other names | Lee W. Beaver |
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Years active | 1949–2013 |
Carlo Lizzani (3 April 1922 – 5 October 2013)[1] was an Italian film director, screenwriter and critic.
Biography
Born in
After directing documentaries, he debuted as a feature director with the admired World War II drama
Lizzani worked frequently for Italian television in the 1980s and supervised the
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]
While preparing for the film L'orecchio del potere ("The Ear of Power", a project he cultivated since the late nineties with the title Operazione Appia Antica), Lizzani committed suicide in Rome at the age of 91, when he jumped from the balcony of his apartment in Via dei Gracchi on 5 October 2013.[1] On 10 October his coffin was transferred to a room in the Capitol that was set up as a funeral home, and the following day the civil funeral was held. Later, his body was transferred to the Flaminian cemetery for cremation.
Legacy
In 2014 his family established the Lizzani Prize in his honor, which became one of the collaterals of the Venice Film Festival and is destined for Italian exhibitors that have given more space to quality cinema in cinemas.
Personal life
Since 1949 he was married to painter
Filmography
- The Sun Still Rises (1946)
- Viaggio al sud, documentary (1949)
- Via Emilia Km 147, documentary (1949)
- Nel Mezzogiorno qualcosa è cambiato, documentary (1950)
- Modena, città dell'Emilia Rossa, documentary (1950)
- Achtung! Banditi!(1951)
- L'amore in città(1953)
- At the Edge of the City, coregia di Massimo Mida (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)
- Banditi a Milano(1968)
- L'amante di Gramigna (1969)
- 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
- ^ a b "Lizzani choc: si è lanciato dal terzo piano. Biglietto ai figli: "Stacco la spina"". Corriere della Sera. 5 October 2013. Retrieved 6 October 2013.
- ^ i-italy, January 28 2010
- ^ ISBN 8877422211.
- ^ Irene Bignardi (5 October 2013). "Carlo Lizzani, addio al signore del cinema italiano". La Repubblica. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
- ^ "Berlinale: 1994 Juries". berlinale.de. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
External links
- Carlo Lizzani at IMDb