Raffaello Matarazzo
Directing
1909-08-17 · Rome, Italy
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
Amore mio
1964 · Movie
Adultero lui, adultera lei
1963 · Movie
I terribili sette
1963 · Movie
Cerasella
1959 · Movie
Melancholy Autumn
1958 · Movie
The Last Violence
1957 · Movie
Rice Girl
1956 · Movie
The Intruder
1955 · Movie
The White Angel
1955 · Movie
Good night… lawyer!
1955 · Movie
Guai ai vinti
1954 · Movie
The Slave of Sin
1954 · Movie
Torna!
1954 · Movie
Giuseppe Verdi
1953 · Movie
The Ship of Condemned Women
1953 · Movie
Vortice
1953 · Movie
He Who Is Without Sin...
1952 · Movie
Lieutenant Giorgio
1952 · Movie
Nobody's Children
1951 · Movie
Dora la espía
1950 · Movie
Paolo e Francesca
1950 · Movie
Tormento
1950 · Movie
Chains
1949 · Movie
The Opium Den
1947 · Movie
Lo sciopero dei milioni
1947 · Movie
Empezó en boda
1944 · Movie
Daddy's Little Devil
1943 · Movie
Giorno di nozze
1942 · Movie
The Adventuress from the Floor Above
1941 · Movie
Notte di fortuna
1941 · Movie
L'imprevisto
1940 · Movie
Giù il sipario
1940 · Movie
Trappola d'amore
1940 · Movie
Il marchese di Ruvolito
1939 · Movie
The Hotel of the Absent
1939 · Movie
L'amor mio non muore!
1938 · Movie
I Was to Blame
1937 · Movie
Joe il Rosso
1936 · Movie
The Anonymous Roylott
1936 · Movie
The Serpent's Fang
1935 · Movie
Tourist Train
1933 · Movie
Littoria
1933 · Movie
La Voce Lontana
1933 · Movie
Mussolinia di Sardegna
1933 · Movie
Sabaudia
1933 · Movie
Two Happy Hearts
1932 · Movie