Carlo Lizzani (3 April 1922 – 5 October 2013) was an Italian

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and critic.

Biography

Born in

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, before

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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

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nomination for Best Original Story. After directing documentaries, he debuted as a feature director with the admired World War II drama '' Attention! Bandits!'' (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 '' Gold of Rome '' (1961) examined events around the final deportation of the Jews of Rome and the Roman roundup, ''grande razzia'', of October 1943.i-italy, January 28 2010
/ref> For his 1968 film '' Bandits in Milan,'' he won a David di Donatello award as best director and a

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award for best screenplay. Lizzani worked frequently for Italian television in the 1980s and supervised the Venice International Film Festival for four editions, from 1979 to 1982. In 1994 Lizzani was a member of the jury at the Berlin Film Festival. For his 1996 film '' Celluloide'', which deals with the making of ''

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'', he received another David di Donatello award for his screenplay. 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

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at the age of 91, when he jumped from the balcony of his apartment in Via dei Gracchi on 5 October 2013. 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

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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

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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) *'' Attention! Bandits!'' (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) *'' Chronicle of Poor Lovers'' (1953) *'' Human Torpedoes'', uncredited

Antonio Leonviola Antonio Leonviola, sometimes Leon Viola (13 May 1913 – 4 August 1995), was an Italian screenwriter and film director and co-founder of the "Libera Università del Cinema di Roma". Life and career Leonviola was born in 1913 in Montagnana as ...

and Marc-Antonio Bragadin (1954) *'' Lo svitato'' (1955) *'' La muraglia cinese'' (1958) *'' Esterina'' (1959) *'' The Hunchback of Rome'' (1960) *'' Carabiniere a cavallo'' (1961) *'' Gold of Rome '' (1961) *'' La vita agra'' (1963) *'' The Verona Trial'' (1963) *'' Amori pericolosi'' (1964) *'' La Celestina P... R...'' (1964) *'' The Dirty Game'' (1965) *'' Thrilling'' (segment "''L'autostrada del Sole''", 1965) *'' Requiescant'' (1966) *'' Wake Up and Die'' (1966) *'' The Hills Run Red '' (1967) *'' Bandits in Milan'' (1968) *'' The Bandit'' (1969) *'' The Tough and the Mighty'' (1969) *'' Love and Anger'' (1969) *'' Roma Bene'' (1971) *'' Black Turin'' (1972) *'' Crazy Joe'' (1973) *'' Last Days of Mussolini'' (1974) *'' Storie di vita e di malavita'' (1975) *'' San Babila-8 P.M.'' (1976) *'' Kleinhoff hotel'' (1977) *'' Fontamara'' (1980) *'' The House of the Yellow Carpet'' (1983) *'' Mamma Ebe'' (1985) *'' Un'isola'' (1986) *'' Dear Gorbachev'' (1988) *'' 12 registi per 12 città'' (1989) documentary *'' The Wicked'' (1991) *'' Celluloide'' (1996) *''

Luchino Visconti Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo (; 2 November 1906 – 17 March 1976) was an Italian filmmaker, theatre and opera director, and screenwriter. He was one of the fathers of Italian neorealism, cinematic neorealism, but later ...

'' (1999) documentary *'' Cesare Zavattini'' (2002) documentary *'' Napoli Napoli Napoli'' (2006) documentary *'' Agusta-Westland, un primato italiano'' (2007) documentary *''

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'' (2007)

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