Carlo Lizzani


Director

About

Also Known As
Lee W Beaver
Birth Place
Italy
Born
April 03, 1917

Bibliography

"Il Cinema Italiano"
Carlo Lizzani (1953)

Biography

Life Events

Videos

Movie Clip

Bitter Rice (Riso Amaro) -- (Movie Clip) Embrace Me Still in the opening sequence, Walter (Vittorio Gassman) almost caught by fellow thugs at the train station, getting help first from girlfriend Francesca (Doris Dowling), then stranger Silvana (Silvana Mangano), in Riso Amaro, a.k.a. Bitter Rice, 1949.
Bitter Rice (Riso Amaro) -- (Movie Clip) Call Me Argentina Veteran Silvana (Mangano) and rookie Francesca (Doris Dowling) arrive with fellow rice workers (Anna Maestri, Dody Ristori, Maria Grazia Francia, et al) bumping soldiers from the barracks, and meeting sergeant Marco (Raf Vallone), in Riso Amaro, a.k.a. Bitter Rice, 1949.
Bitter Rice (Riso Amaro) -- (Movie Clip) Only Women Can Do It Location shots by Otello Martelli in the Po river valley, Lamberto Maggiorani, star of The Bicycle Thief as a radio announcer, serious Neo-Realist credentials, opening critic-turned-director Giuseppe de Santis' Riso Amaro, a.k.a. Bitter Rice, 1949.
Bitter Rice (Riso Amaro) -- (Movie Clip) That's How They Betray Us Musical labor clash in the Po valley rice fields, the contract girls led by Silvana (Mangano), resenting the speedy "illegals," led by her friend Francesca (Doris Dowling), in Giuseppe de Santis' Riso Amaro, a.k.a. Bitter Rice, 1949.
Bitter Rice (Riso Amaro) -- (Movie Clip) Opposites Attract Friends again, in lingerie in their barracks, Francesca (Doris Dowling) telling Silvana (Mangano) about her fugitive boyfriend, Gabriella (Maria Grazia Francia) suffering from work in the rice paddies, in Riso Amaro, a.k.a. Bitter Rice, 1949.

Bibliography

"Il Cinema Italiano"
Carlo Lizzani (1953)