Carlo Lizzani

Carlo Lizzani was an Italian film director screenwriter and critic Born in Rome after World War II Lizzani worked on such notable films of the late 1940s as Roberto Rossellinis Germany Year Zero Alberto Lattuadas 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 LAmore in Città 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 a member of the jury at the Berlin Film Festival in 1994 His film Celluloide deals with the making of Rome Open City He committed suicide in 2013