Carlo Lizzani

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Biography

Italian film director, screenwriter and critic

  • Primary profession
  • Director·writer·actor
  • Country
  • Italy
  • Nationality
  • Italian
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 03 April 1922
  • Place of birth
  • Rome
  • Death date
  • 2013-10-05
  • Death age
  • 91
  • Place of death
  • Rome
  • Cause of death
  • Suicide
  • Education
  • Sapienza University of Rome
  • Knows language
  • Italian language

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Awards

Trivia

Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival 1994

Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1987.

Former film critic.

Father of assistant director Francesco Lizzani and casting director/actress Flaminia Lizzani.

Committed suicide in Rome by jumping from the balcony of his home in the Via dei Gracchi.

A celebrated exponent of Italian post-war neo-realism.

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