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
all 45
Movies 45
Director 39
Writer 5
Screenplay 1
Amore mio (1964)
Adultero lui, adultera lei (1963)
I terribili sette (1963)
Cerasella (1959)
Malinconico autunno (1958)
The Last Violence (1957)
Rice Girl (1956)
The Intruder (1955)
The White Angel (1955)
Good night… lawyer! (1955)
Guai ai vinti (1954)
The Slave of Sin (1954)
Torna! (1954)
Giuseppe Verdi (1953)
The Ship of Condemned Women (1953)
Vortice (1953)
He Who Is Without Sin... (1952)
Il tenente Giorgio (1952)
Nobody's Children (1951)
Dora la espía (1950)
Paolo e Francesca (1950)
Tormento (1950)
Chains (1949)
Fumeria d’oppio (1947)
Lo sciopero dei milioni (1947)
Empezó en boda (1944)
Daddy's Little Devil (1943)
Giorno di nozze (1942)
L'avventuriera del piano di sopra (1941)
L'imprevisto (1940)
Giù il sipario (1940)
Trappola d'amore (1940)
The Property of the Absent (1939)
I Was to Blame (1937)
Joe il rosso (1936)
L'anonima Roylott (1936)
The Serpent's Fang (1935)
Frutto Acerbo (1934)
Tourist Train (1933)
Littoria (1933)
La Voce Lontana (1933)
Sabaudia (1933)
Mussolinia di Sardegna (1933)
Two Happy Hearts (1932)
The operator (1932)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1909-08-17
Deathday1966-05-17 (56 years old)
Birth PlaceRome, Italy
CitizenshipsItaly, Kingdom of Italy
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