Carlo Lizzani

Carlo Lizzani was an Italian film director, screenwriter and critic, born on 3 April 1922 and died on 5 October 2013. The three roles in his description mark him as a figure who worked on several sides of film culture at once: he wrote about cinema as a critic, wrote scripts as a screenwriter and directed films as a director. That combination is a useful example of how film making and film criticism overlapped in twentieth century Italy. His life, from 1922 to 2013, spans most of the history of sound cinema, though this entry records only what the encyclopedic lead of its source supports and leaves his individual films to later work.