Raffaello Matarazzo
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- August 17, 1909
- Died
- May 17, 1966 (aged 56)
- Birthplace
- Rome, Italy
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.
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Filmography
Amore mio
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I terribili sette
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Adultero lui, adultera lei
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Cerasella
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Melancholy Autumn
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The Last Violence
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Rice Girl
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The White Angel
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The Intruder
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Torna!
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The Slave of Sin
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Guai ai vinti
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The Ship of Condemned Women
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Giuseppe Verdi
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Vortice
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He Who Is Without Sin...
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Lieutenant Giorgio
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Nobody's Children
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Tormento
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Paolo e Francesca
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Dora la espía
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Chains
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The Opium Den
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Lo sciopero dei milioni
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Empezó en boda
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Daddy's Little Devil
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Giorno di nozze
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The Adventuress from the Floor Above
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Notte di fortuna
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Trappola d'amore
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Giù il sipario
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The Hotel of the Absent
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Il marchese di Ruvolito
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I Was to Blame
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Joe il Rosso
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The Anonymous Roylott
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The Serpent's Fang
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Tourist Train
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Littoria
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Sabaudia
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Mussolinia di Sardegna
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