Raffaello Matarazzo
Born: 1909-08-17 in Rome, Italy
Died: 1966-05-17
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
1964
- Amore mio ... (Screenplay)
1963
- Adultero lui, adultera lei ... (Director)
- I terribili sette ... (Director)
1959
- Cerasella ... (Director)
1958
- Melancholy Autumn ... (Director)
1957
- The Last Violence ... (Director)
1956
- Rice Girl ... (Director)
1955
- The Intruder ... (Director)
- Good night… lawyer! ... (Story)
- The White Angel ... (Producer)
1954
- Torna! ... (Producer)
- The Slave of Sin ... (Director)
- Guai ai vinti ... (Screenplay)
1953
- Giuseppe Verdi ... (Director)
- The Ship of Condemned Women ... (Director)
- Vortice ... (Story)
1952
- Lieutenant Giorgio ... (Director)
- He Who Is Without Sin... ... (Director)
1951
- Nobody's Children ... (Producer)
1950
- Tormento ... (Producer)
- Dora la espía ... (Writer)
- Paolo e Francesca ... (Director)
1949
- Chains ... (Director)
1947
- Fumeria d’oppio ... (Director)
- Lo sciopero dei milioni ... (Director)
1944
- Empezó en boda ... (Screenplay)
1943
- Daddy's Little Devil ... (Director)
1942
- Giorno di nozze ... (Director)
1941
- The Adventuress from the Floor Above ... (Director)
1940
- Trappola d'amore ... (Director)
- Giù il sipario ... (Editor)
- L'imprevisto ... (Writer)
1939
- The Hotel of the Absent ... (Director)
1937
- I Was to Blame ... (Director)
1936
- L'anonima Roylott ... (Director)
- Joe il Rosso ... (Director)
1935
- The Serpent's Fang ... (Director)
1933
- La Voce Lontana ... (Screenplay)
- Tourist Train as The Director of the Band (uncredited)
- Sabaudia ... (Director)
- Mussolinia di Sardegna ... (Director)
- Littoria ... (Director)
1932
- Two Happy Hearts ... (Screenplay)