Carlo Lizzani director film producer Italian

CARLO LIZZANI DIRECTOR FILM PRODUCER ITALIAN

Carlo Lizzani was a director, screenwriter, actor and film producer Italian, was born in Rome, April 3, 1922 and died October 5, 2013.
Was partisan and participated in the Roman Resistance, then joined the Italian Communist Party.

It was screenwriter Vergano, De Santis, Rossellini and Lattuada in the neorealist period.
He started his career with the documentary In the South, something has changed (1950) and with the film Achtung! Bandits! (1951).
Among the films he directed should be mentioned: Chronicle of Poor Lovers (1954), The process of Verona (1963), La Vita Agra (1964), The Violent Four (1968), Joe (1974), Last Days of Mussolini (1974 ), Life Stories and underworld (1975), Fontamara (1980), The House of the Yellow Carpet (1983), Core Zero (1984), Mamma Ebe (1985), Dear Gorbachev (1988), Bad (1991), Celluloid ( 1995), Hotel Meina (2007), in addition to television dramas An Island (1986) and The Trap (1989).

From 1979 to 1982 he directed the Venice Film Festival in Venice. In 1998 he published a collection of his writings of various kinds Through the twentieth century, in which there are also interesting anecdotes about the world of Italian neorealist cinema, and in 2007 his autobiography My long journey in the short century. It was a tutor of the course of the Academy Act Filmmaker Multimedia Cinecittà.
On October 5, 2013, took his own life by jumping from the balcony of his apartment in Via dei Gracchi in Rome.

On 2 May 1996 he received in Rome ribbon for uniform ordinary Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

On 18 June 2002 he received in Rome ribbon for uniform ordinary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.