Carlo Lizzani
Carlo Lizzani | |
---|---|
Born | |
Died | 5 October 2013 Rome, Italy | (aged 91)
Other names | Lee W. Beaver |
Occupations | |
Years active | 1949–2013 |
Carlo Lizzani (3 April 1922 – 5 October 2013)[1] was an Italian film director, screenwriter and critic.
Biography
Born in Rome, before World War II Lizzani worked as a scenarist on such films as Roberto Rossellini's Germany Year Zero, Alberto Lattuada's The Mill on the Po (both 1948), and Giuseppe De Santis' Bitter Rice (1949), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Story.
After directing documentaries, he debuted as a feature director with the admired World War II drama Achtung! Banditi! (1951). 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 crime-comedy Roma Bene (1971). His film L'oro di Roma (1961) examined events around the final deportation of the Jews of Rome and the Roman roundup, grande razzia, of October 1943.[2] For his 1968 film Bandits in Milan, he won a David di Donatello award as best director and a Nastro d'Argento award for best screenplay.[3]
Lizzani worked frequently for Italian television in the 1980s and supervised the Venice International Film Festival for four editions, from 1979 to 1982.[4] In 1994 Lizzani was a member of the jury at the Berlin Film Festival.[5]
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 Edith Bieber, whom he met in Berlin during the filming of the Roberto Rossellini film Germania anno zero.
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 che si paga, episode of the film 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
- ^ a b Enrico Lancia (1998). I premi del cinema. Gremese Editore, 1998. 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
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Use dmy dates from March 2016
- Articles with hCards
- Articles with FAST identifiers
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with BIBSYS identifiers
- Articles with BNE identifiers
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with ICCU identifiers
- Articles with J9U identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with NKC identifiers
- Articles with NLA identifiers
- Articles with NLG identifiers
- Articles with NLK identifiers
- Articles with NTA identifiers
- Articles with PLWABN identifiers
- Articles with VcBA identifiers
- Articles with CINII identifiers
- Articles with DTBIO identifiers
- Articles with Trove identifiers
- Articles with SNAC-ID identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- 1922 births
- 2013 deaths
- 2013 suicides
- David di Donatello winners
- Nastro d'Argento winners
- David di Donatello Career Award winners
- Italian screenwriters
- Italian male screenwriters
- Giallo film directors
- Writers from Rome
- Suicides by jumping in Italy
- Film directors from Rome
- Burials at the Cimitero Flaminio