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Carlo Lizzani
Carlo Lizzani (3 April 1922 – 5 October 2013) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and critic. Biography Born in Rome, before World War II Lizzani worked as a scenarist on such films as Roberto Rossellini's ''Germany Year Zero'', Alberto Lattuada's '' The Mill on the Po'' (both 1948) and Giuseppe De Santis' ''Bitter Rice'' (1949), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Story. After directing documentaries, he debuted as a feature director with the admired World War II drama ''Achtung! Banditi!'' (1951). 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 crime-comedy ''Roma Bene'' (1971). His film ''L'oro di Roma'' (1961) examined events around the final deportation of the Jews of Rome and the Roman roundup, ''grande razzia'', of October 1943. For his 1968 film ''Bandits in Milan'' he ...
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Celluloide
''Celluloide'' is a 1996 Italian historical drama film directed by Carlo Lizzani from a screenplay by Furio Scarpelli, Ugo Pirro and Lizzani, based on the 1983 novel of the same name by Pirro. It stars Giancarlo Giannini, Massimo Ghini, Anna Falchi, and Lina Sastri. Plot The story revolves around the difficult production of Roberto Rossellini's film ''Rome, Open City'' (1945). Cast *Giancarlo Giannini as Sergio Amidei *Massimo Ghini as Roberto Rossellini *Anna Falchi as Maria Michi *Lina Sastri as Anna Magnani *Massimo Dapporto as Giuseppe Amato *Antonello Fassari as Aldo Fabrizi *Milva as The Countess *Christopher Walken as US Officer Rod E. Geiger *Massimo Ciavarro as Massimo Serato *Francesca Ventura as Jone Tuzi, the script supervisor *Francesco Siciliano as Federico Fellini Giuliano Montaldo has an uncredited cameo as Civalleri, one of the film's early financers. Production The film was a passion project of Lizzani's, who tried to get it financed since 1983. Sabrina Fer ...
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Achtung! Banditi!
''Achtung! Banditi!'' also known as ''Attention! Bandits!'' is a 1951 Italian World War II film drama directed by Carlo Lizzani and starring Gina Lollobrigida and Andrea Checchi. Cast *Gina Lollobrigida as Anna *Andrea Checchi as the engineer *Lamberto Maggiorani as Marco * Giuseppe Taffarel as Commander Vento *Vittorio Duse as Domenico *Giuliano Montaldo as Lorenzo * Franco Bologna as Gatto *Maria Laura Rocca as the diplomat's lover *Pietro Tordi Pietro Tordi (12 July 1906 – 14 December 1990) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 100 films between 1942 and 1988. He was born in Florence, Italy. Selected filmography * '' Doctor Antonio'' (1937) - L'altro conspiratore * '' Don C ... as the diplomat * Ferdinando Costa as a German official * Bruno Berellini as a blond man * Pietro Ferro as a partisan * Lucia Feltrin as the courier * Giuseppe Mantero as Pietro * Domenico Grassi as a German soldier Notes and references External links * 1950s Italian-language ...
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Rome, Open City
''Rome, Open City'' ( it, Roma città aperta, also released as ''Open City'') is a 1945 Italian neorealist war drama film directed by Roberto Rossellini and co-written by Sergio Amidei, Celeste Negarville and Federico Fellini. Set in Rome in 1944, the film follows a diverse group of characters coping under the Nazi occupation, and centers on a Resistance fighter trying to escape the city with the help of a Catholic priest. The title refers to Rome being declared an open city after 14 August 1943. It forms the first third of Rosselini's "Neorealist Trilogy", followed by ''Paisan'' (1946) and ''Germany, Year Zero'' (1948). ''Open City'' is considered one of the most important and representative works of Italian neorealism, and an important stepping stone for Italian filmmaking as a whole. It was one of the first post-war Italian pictures to gain major acclaim and accolades internationally, winning the prestigious Palme d'Or at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival and being nominated for ...
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44th Berlin International Film Festival
The 44th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 10 to 21 February 1994. The Golden Bear was awarded to British-Irish film ''In the Name of the Father'' directed by Jim Sheridan. The retrospective dedicated to Austrian director, actor and producer Erich von Stroheim was shown at the festival. Jury The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival: * Jeremy Thomas, producer (United Kingdom) - Jury President * Chinghiz Aitmatov, writer (Kyrgyzstan) * María Luisa Bemberg, director and screenwriter (Argentina) * Hsu Feng, actress and producer (Taiwan) * Morgan Freeman, actor (United States) * Francis Girod, actor, director and screenwriter (France) * Corinna Harfouch, actress (Germany) * Carlo Lizzani, director and screenwriter (Italy) * Wolfram Schütte, writer and film critic (Germany) * Susan Seidelman, director (United States) * Hayao Shibata, producer (Japan) Films in competition The following films were in competition for the Golden B ...
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Venice International Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival held in Venice, Italy. It is the world's oldest film festival and one of the "Big Six" International film festivals worldwide, which include the Big Three European Film Festivals, alongside the Toronto Film Festival in Canada the Sundance Film Festival in the United States and the Melbourne International Film Festival in Australia. The Festivals are internationally acclaimed for giving creators the artistic freedom to express themselves through film. In 1951, FIAPF formally accredited the festival. Founded by the National Fascist Party in Venice in August 1932, the festival is part of the Venice Biennale, one of the world's oldest exhibitions of art, created by the Venice City Council on 19 April 1893. The range of work at the Venice Bienn ...
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Nastro D'Argento
The Nastro d'Argento, also known by its translated name Silver Ribbon, is an Italian film award awarded each year since 1946 by the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists (Italian: ''Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani''). It is the oldest Italian film award, given every year at the ''Teatro Antico'' in Taormina (Sicily). Awards The awards are currently given in the following categories: *Best Film (''Miglior film''; since 2017) *Best Director (''Miglior regista'', since 2017) *Best Comedy (''Migliore commedia''; since 2009) * Best New Director (''Miglior regista esordiente''; since 1974) *Best Producer (''Miglior produttore''; since 1954) *Best Original Story (''Migliore soggetto'') * Best Screenplay (''Migliore sceneggiatura''; since 1948) * Best Actor (''Migliore attore protagonista'') * Best Actress (''Migliore attrice protagonista'') * Best Supporting Actor (''Migliore attore non protagonista'') * Best Supporting Actress (''Migliore attrice non ...
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David Di Donatello For Best Director
The David di Donatello Award for Best Director (Italian: ''David di Donatello per il miglior regista'') is a film award presented annually by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano (ACI, ''Academy of Italian Cinema'') to recognize the outstanding direction of a film director who has worked within the Italian film industry during the year preceding the ceremony. The award was first given in 1956, and became competitive in 1981. Nominees and winners are selected via runoff voting by all the members of the Accademia. Francesco Rosi is the record holder with six awards in the category, received from 1965 to 1997, followed by Mario Monicelli and Giuseppe Tornatore with four. Winners and nominees Below, winners are listed first in the colored row, followed by other nominees. 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Multiple wins and nominations The following individuals have won multiple Best Director awards: The following directors have re ...
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David Di Donatello
The David di Donatello Awards, named after Donatello's ''David'', a symbolic statue of the Italian Renaissance, are film awards given out each year by the ''Accademia del Cinema Italiano'' (The Academy of Italian Cinema). There are 26 award categories, as of 2021. The industry-voted awards are considered the Italian equivalent of the American Academy Awards and rank among top-tier awards such as the Premio Regia Televisiva for television, the Premio Ubu for stage performances, the Sanremo Music Festival, and the annual Venice Film Festival, which hosts the Golden Lion film award. History The David di Donatello film awards follow the same criteria as the American Academy Awards.) The ceremony was established in 1955 in order to honour the best of each year's Italian and foreign films, and first awarded in Rome on 5 July 1956. Similar prizes had already existed in Italy for about a decade, such as the Nastro d.'Gentro, but these were voted on by film critics and journalists. Ho ...
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Bandits In Milan
''Bandits in Milan'' ( it, Banditi a Milano; also known as ''The Violent Four'') is a 1968 Italian crime film directed by Carlo Lizzani. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France. It is the debut film of Agostina Belli. Production Like director Carlo Lizzani's previous film ''Wake Up and Die'' is based on a real life event, specifically a bank robbery that went wrong in Milan on 25 September 1967. Cast * Gian Maria Volonté as Piero Cavallero * Tomas Milian as Commissario Basevi * Don Backy as Sante Notarnicola * Ray Lovelock as Donato 'Tuccio' Lopez * Ezio Sancrotti as Adriano Rovoletto 'Bartolini' * Piero Mazzarella as Piva * Laura Solari as Tuccio's Mother * Peter Martell as The Protector * Margaret Lee as Prostitute * Carla Gravina as Anna * Luigi Rossetti as Robber * María Rosa Sclauzero as Piero's Secretary * Ida Meda as Moglie di Piero * Tota Ruta as Club Hitman * Evi Rossi Scott ...
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Roman Ghetto
The Roman Ghetto or Ghetto of Rome ( it, Ghetto di Roma) was a Jewish ghettos in Europe, Jewish ghetto established in 1555 in the Sant'Angelo (rione of Rome), Rione Sant'Angelo, in Rome, Italy, in the area surrounded by present-day Via del Porticus Octaviae, Portico d'Ottavia, Lungotevere De' Cenci, Lungotevere dei Cenci, Via del Progresso and Via di Santa Maria del Pianto, close to the River Tiber and the Theatre of Marcellus. With the exception of brief periods under Napoleon from 1808 to 1815 and under the Roman Republics of Roman Republic (18th century), 1798–99 and Roman Republic (1849), 1849, the ghetto of Rome was controlled by the papacy until the capture of Rome in 1870.Lerner, 1. Creation The Jewish community of Rome is probably the oldest in the world outside of the Middle East, with a continuous existence from classical times down to the present day. The first record of Jews in Rome is in 161 BC, when Jason b. Eleazar and Eupolemus b. Johanan are said to have gone ...
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L'oro Di Roma
''L'oro di Roma'' (internationally released as ''Gold of Rome'') is a List of Italian films of 1961, 1961 Cinema of Italy, Italian War film, war - drama film directed by Carlo Lizzani. The film is based on actual events surrounding the Nazi's Raid of the Ghetto of Rome, raid of Rome's Jewish ghetto in October 1943. Cast *Gérard Blain: Davide *Anna Maria Ferrero: Giulia *Jean Sorel: Massimo *Andrea Checchi: Ortona *Paola Borboni: Rosa *Umberto Raho: Beniamino *Filippo Scelzo: Ludovico References External links

* 1961 films 1960s war drama films Italian war drama films 1960s Italian-language films World War II films based on actual events Films set in Rome Films directed by Carlo Lizzani Holocaust films Films scored by Giovanni Fusco 1961 drama films Italian World War II films 1960s Italian films {{war-drama-film-stub ...
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Roma Bene
''Roma Bene'' is a 1971 Italian comedy-drama film starring Virna Lisi, Nino Manfredi, Irene Papas and Senta Berger. Plot The classic scene of the upper middle-class in Rome: a duchess, the industrial husband and the many apparently respectable characters. It is actually a parade of dingy types: the Baron is a jewel thief, among the others there are social climbers, unscrupulous nobles who staged fake kidnappings and extortion attempts, and even a wife who comes to commission the murder of the ship-owner husband. The fate of these people will be the same: death at sea, but their misdeeds instead will remain unaddressed and an overzealous police commissioner will be promoted and transferred. Cast *Nino Manfredi: Commissario Quintilio Tartamella * Philippe Leroy: Giorgio Santi *Virna Lisi: Duchessa Silvia Santi *Mario Feliciani: Teo Teopulos *Irene Papas: Elena Teopulos *Evi Maltagliati: La madre di Elena *Umberto Orsini: Principe Rubio Marescalli *Senta Berger: Principessa D ...
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