Title: The Off-screen Director

Genre: Documentary
lenght: 52’
country of origin: italy
year of production: 2002
Format: Digital Betacam, v.o. it.

director:
Fedele Aula

subject AND SCREENPLAY:
Laura e silvia Pettini

Cast:
Tullio Kezich, Isabella Rossellini, Rodolfo Sonego, Giuliano Montaldo, Francesco Rosi, Ugo Pirro, Luciano Vincenzoni, Alfredo Bini, Paolo e Vittorio Taviani, Giancarlo Giannini

Clip from movies:
Il gobbo; Crazy Joe; Achtung! Banditi!; Cronache di poveri amanti; Il sole sorge ancora; Celluloide; Germania Anno Zero; La muraglia cinese; La terra trema.

Music:
pasquale filastò

editing:
luca baldanza

Production:
felix film

Synopsis

Carlo Lizzani director, screenwriter, film critic, writer, professor at the CSC - Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (Experimental Cinematography Centre) Foundation of Rome, director of the Venice Film Festival, told through the words of his friends and collaborators, directors, screenwriters, actors and producers in a portrait that alternates clips from his films with unpublished stories and anecdotes, revealing a brilliant and versatile artistic personality.

public screenings:

a tribute to Maestro Carlo Lizzani for his 80th birthday
Rome, 3 april 2002 - Protomoteca del Campidoglio

a tribute to Maestro Carlo Lizzani
Rome, 15 - 21 april 2002 - Cinema Nuovo Olimpia

other title

PITRè STORIES
by Alessandro D’Alessandro and Marco Leopardi (Italy, 75', documentary, 2011)

ONCE UPON A TIME IN ITALY - Memories from a bygone country (1957-1967)
by Stefano Grossi (Italy, 75’, documentary, 2011)

TALKING ABOUT CINEMA
by Carlo Lizzani, Laura Pettini, Silvia Pettini
(Italy, a collection of 31 documentaries (interviews), 2000-2010)

CLOUD MAN
by Stefano Mordini (Italy, 54', documentary, 2009)

ITALIAN MIRACLE - TEN YEARS TO REMEMBER (1957-1967)
by Stefano Grossi (Italy, A DOCUMENTARY IN 4 EPISODES OF 52’, 2009)

DIARIES OF THE 1900’S
by Stefano Grossi (Italy, a collection of 30 documentaries (interviews), 2009 / FORMAT)

THE UNIONIST (GIUSEPPE DI VITTORIO, VOCI DI IERI E DI OGGI)
by Carlo Lizzani and Francesca Del Sette (Italy, 52', documentary, 2009)

GIUSEPPE DE SANTIS
by Carlo Lizzani (Italy, 52', documentary, 2009)

luchino visconti, life as a novel
by Carlo Lizzani (Italy, 60', documentary, 2008)

VALLE D'AOSTA (LES MONTAGNARDS SONT LÀ!)
by Piergiorgio Gay (Italy, 60', documentary, 2008)

BEING CLAUDIA CARDINALE
by Stefano Mordini (Italy,52’, documentary, 2006)

The perfect fit
by Piergiorgio Gay (Italy, documentary, 2005)

Looking for SOPHIA
by Roberto Olla (Italy, 52’, documentary, 2004)

CESARE ZAVATTINI
by Carlo Lizzani (Italy, 52’, documentary, 2003)

The Off-screen Director
by fedele aula (Italy, 52’, documentary, 2002)

ROBERTO ROSSELLINI
by Carlo Lizzani (Italy, 64’, documentary, 2001)

ROBERTO ROSSELLINi, FRAGMENTS AND SPEECHES
by Carlo Lizzani (Italy, 74’, documentary, 2001)

LUCHINO VISCONTI
by Carlo Lizzani (Italy, 60’, documentary,1999)