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Carlo Lizzani

Carlo Lizzani

Italian film director, screenwriter and critic (1922-2013)
April 3, 1922 (October 5, 2013)

Cause à l'autre

V.O.: Assicurazione sulla morte
It. 1987. Crime drama by Carlo Lizzani with Patricia Millardet, Giovanni Vettorazzo, Augusto Zucchi. A beautiful suburban woman pushes a debt-ridden insurance agent to eliminate her old and cumbersome husband.
Runtime: 95 min.
Runtime: 141 min.

Hôtel Kleinhoff

V.O.: Kleinhoff Hotel
It. 1977. Psychological drama by Carlo Lizzani with Corinne Cléry, Bruce Robinson, Katya Rupé. After missing her plane, a young woman spends a night in a hotel where she meets a terrorist.
Runtime: 90 min.

The Last Four Days

V.O.: Mussolini: ultimo atto
It. 1974. History by Carlo Lizzani with Rod Steiger, Lisa Gastoni, Henry Fonda. In 1945, the last days of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
Runtime: 128 min.
It. 1973. Crime drama by Carlo Lizzani with Peter Boyle, Rip Torn, Eli Wallach. In New York, two brothers employed as killers by a mob boss rebel against their leader to gain more prominence in the underworld.
Runtime: 100 min.

La Vengeance du Sicilien

V.O.: Torino Nera
It. 1972. Court drama by Carlo Lizzani with Domenico Santoro, Nicola Di Bari, Andrea Balestri. With the help of a young lawyer, a teenager tries to gather evidence to clear his father, wrongly convicted of a murder he did not commit.
Runtime: 105 min.

Scandale à Rome

V.O.: Roma bene
It. 1971. Satire by Carlo Lizzani with Nino Manfredi, Virna Lisi, Philippe Leroy. The dishonesty of various representatives of the Roman high society.
Runtime: 99 min.

Black Jesus

V.O.: Seduto alla sua destra
It. 1968. Social drama by Valerio Zurlini with Woody Strode, Franco Citti, Jean Servais. In Africa, a Black leader and supporter of non-violence is arrested by mercenaries.
Runtime: 87 min.

The Violent Four

V.O.: Banditi a Milano
It. 1968. Crime drama by Carlo Lizzani with Gian Maria Volonté, Tomas Milian, Don Backy. Four bandits carry out a hold-up in a bank and are chased by the police.
Runtime: 99 min.

Love and Anger

V.O.: Amore e rabbia
It. 1968. Sketches by Marco Bellocchio, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jean-Luc Godard, Carlo Lizzani, Pier Paolo Pasolini with Julian Beck, Tom Baker, Nino Castelnuovo. Various reflections on the theme of protest.
Runtime: 102 min.

The Hills Run Red

V.O.: Un Fiume di dollari
It. 1966. Western by Carlo Lizzani with Thomas Hunter, Henry Silva, Dan Duryea.
Runtime: 89 min.

Wake Up and Die

V.O.: Svegliati e uccidi
It. 1966. Crime drama by Carlo Lizzani with Robert Hoffmann, Lisa Gastoni, Gian Maria Volonté. A modest worker decides to live the high life and gets more and more involved in crime.
Runtime: 122 min.
Fr. 1965. Sketches by Terence Young, Christian-Jaque, Carlo Lizzani with Henry Fonda, Bourvil, Vittorio Gassman. Three espionage adventures.
Runtime: 91 min.

Le Procès de Vérone

V.O.: Il Processo di Verona
It. 1963. History by Carlo Lizzani with Frank Wolff, Silvana Mangano, Vivi Gioi. In 1943, after a trial for treason, Mussolini's son-in-law is sentenced to death.
Runtime: 120 min.

L'Or de Rome

V.O.: L'Oro di Roma
It. 1961. Drama by Carlo Lizzani with Anna-Maria Ferrero, Gérard Blain, Jean Sorel. In 1943, the Germans demanded a ransom from the Jews of Italy.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1960. Drama by Carlo Lizzani with Gérard Blain, Anna-Maria Ferrero, Bernard Blier. A hunchback who was part of the Resistance becomes a fearsome bandit after the war.
Runtime: 95 min.
It. 1959. Dramatic comedy by Carlo Lizzani with Carla Gravina, Domenico Modugno, Geoffrey Horne. A mischievous young person goes on a trip with a trucker with whom she falls in love.
Runtime: 90 min.

L'Amour à la ville

V.O.: L'Amore in Città
It. 1956. Sketches by Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada, Carlo Lizzani, Francesco Maselli, Dino Risi, Cesare Zavattini, Michelangelo Antonioni with Rita Josa, Ugo Tognazzi, Marco Ferreri. Six portraits that present a certain view of love and its consequences.
Runtime: 85 min.

Dans les faubourgs de la ville

V.O.: Ai Margini della metropoli
It. 1955. Crime drama by Carlo Lizzani with Michel Jourdan, Giulietta Masina, Marina Berti. A lawyer succeeds in acquitting a man wrongly accused of murder.
Runtime: 94 min.

Chronique des pauvres amants

V.O.: Cronache di poveri amanti
It. 1954. Drama by Carlo Lizzani with Antonella Lualdi, Marcello Mastroianni, Anna-Maria Ferrero. In 1925, the reaction of Florentines to the rise of fascism.
Runtime: 107 min.

Attention! Bandits!

V.O.: Achtung! Banditi!

Bitter Rice

V.O.: Riso amaro
It. 1949. Social drama by Giuseppe De Santis with Silvana Mangano, Doris Dowling, Vittorio Gassman. The hard life of women working in the rice fields of northern Italy.
Runtime: 108 min.

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