Based on the novel of Luciano Bianciardi, the movie tells the story of Luciano Bianchi, an intellectual coming from a provincial area of Italy, moving to Milan after a mine accident killed some of his friends and co-workers. Milan is the symbol of the economic growth and in the increasingly wealthy lifestyle that characterised Italy’s in the 60s, and Luciano’s life changes dramatically: he leaves his wife and kids behind, gets a new job and falls in love with Anna, a young and lefty journalist. –Amazon
Carlo Lizzani (born 3 April 1922) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and critic.
Born in Rome, after World War II Lizzani worked on such notable films of the late 1940s as Roberto Rossellini’s Germany Year Zero, Alberto Lattuada’s The Mill on the Po (both 1948) and Giuseppe De Santis’ Bitter Rice (1950, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Story).
After helming documentaries, he debuted as a feature director with the admired World War II drama Achtung! Banditi! (1951). He films an episode of L’Amore in Città. 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 erotic comedy Roma Bene (1971).
He worked frequently for Italian television in the 1980s and was a member of the jury at the Berlin Film Festival in 1994.
His film Celluloide deals with the making of Rome, Open City. —Wikipedia… read more
