Known For
Directing
Born
Aug 17, 1909
Died
May 17, 1966
Place of Birth
Rome, Italy
Credits
46 titles
Raffaello Matarazzo
Biography
Largely misunderstood, at best considered a little master of an Italian cinema in full revival after the war thanks to neo-realism, Raffaello Matarazzo is nevertheless the author of some sumptuous melodramas whose success was spectacular in post-fascist Italy. Matarazzo started writing film reviews for the Roman newspaper Il Tevere before re-editing scripts for the Italian film company Cines. His first films were comedies until he shifted to making melodramas. With Catene, produced by Titanus in 1949, he became the most successful director in Italy. Audience loved his melodramas. Critics, however, have tended to disparage his work, saying that Matarazzo films were Neorealismo d'appendice. Since the 1970s, some film critics have tried to restore Matarazzo's reputation. French magazine Positif loved his erotic-historical peplum The Ship of Lost Women.
Known For
Filmography
Amore mio
Screenplay
Adultero lui, adultera lei
Director
I terribili sette
Director
Cerasella
Director
Melancholy Autumn
Director
The Last Violence
Director
Rice Girl
Director
The Intruder
Director
The White Angel
Story
Good night… lawyer!
Story
Guai ai vinti
Screenplay
The Slave of Sin
Director
Torna!
Producer
Giuseppe Verdi
Director
The Ship of Condemned Women
Director
Vortice
Story
He Who Is Without Sin...
Director
Lieutenant Giorgio
Director
Nobody's Children
Director
Dora la espía
Director
Paolo e Francesca
Director
Tormento
Director
Chains
Director
The Opium Den
Director
Lo sciopero dei milioni
Director
Empezó en boda
Screenplay
Daddy's Little Devil
Director
Giorno di nozze
Director
The Adventuress from the Floor Above
Director
Notte di fortuna
Director
L'imprevisto
Writer
Giù il sipario
Writer
Trappola d'amore
Screenplay
Il marchese di Ruvolito
Director
The Hotel of the Absent
Director
L'amor mio non muore!
Screenplay
I Was to Blame
Director
Joe il Rosso
Director
The Anonymous Roylott
Director
The Serpent's Fang
Director
Tourist Train
The Director of the Band (uncredited)
Littoria
Director
La Voce Lontana
Screenplay
Mussolinia di Sardegna
Director
Sabaudia
Director
Two Happy Hearts
Screenplay