CARLO LIZZANI

Carlo Lizzani (Rome, 3 April 1922) is a director, screenwriter and Italian film producer.
After participating as a partisan at the Roman Resistance with Carla Capponi, Ezio Malatesta and Filiberto Sbardella, he joined the Italian Communist Party.
Critic and essayist (author, among other things, of a History of Italian Cinema, 1953, 1961 and 1979) screenwriter for directors such as Aldo Vergano, Giuseppe De Santis, Roberto Rossellini and Alberto Lattuada in the Neorealist period, he made his debut with the documentary Nel Mezzogiorno (1950) and with the film Achtung! Bandits! (1951).
Among the films he directed are: Chronicles of Poor Lovers (1954), The Process of Verona (1963), Bandits in Milan (1968), Crazy Joe (1973), Mussolini Last Act (1974), Stories of Life and Underworld (1975), Fontamara (1980), The Yellow Carpet House (1983), Mamma Ebe (1985), Caro Gorbachev (1988), Cattiva (1991), Celluloide (1995), as well as the television series Nucleo Zero (1984), An Island (1986) and La trappola (1989).
From 1979 to 1982 he directed the Venice Film Festival. In 1998 he published the collection of his writings of various kinds Through the twentieth century, which also contains anecdotes about the Italian neorealist cinema world. He was also tutor of the Filmmaker course at the Academy of Multimedia Academy of Cinecittà.