Raffaello Matarazzo
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- August 17, 1909
- Died
- May 17, 1966
- Birthplace
- 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
Story, Screenplay, Producer, Director
Adultero lui, adultera lei 1963
Director, Story, Screenplay
I terribili sette 1963
Director, Screenplay
Cerasella 1959
Director, Screenplay
Melancholy Autumn 1958
Director
The Last Violence 1957
Director, Story, Producer
Rice Girl 1956
Director
The Intruder 1955
Director, Screenplay
The White Angel 1955
Director, Story, Producer
Good night… lawyer! 1955
Story
Guai ai vinti 1954
Director, Screenplay
The Slave of Sin 1954
Director
Torna! 1954
Producer, Director
Giuseppe Verdi 1953
Director, Screenplay
The Ship of Condemned Women 1953
Director, Writer
Vortice 1953
Story, Screenplay, Director, Producer
He Who Is Without Sin... 1952
Director
Lieutenant Giorgio 1952
Director
Nobody's Children 1951
Director, Producer
Dora la espía 1950
Director, Writer
Paolo e Francesca 1950
Director, Screenplay
Tormento 1950
Director, Producer
Chains 1949
Director, Producer
The Opium Den 1947
Director, Screenplay
Lo sciopero dei milioni 1947
Director
Empezó en boda 1944
Director, Story, Screenplay
Daddy's Little Devil 1943
Director, Writer
Giorno di nozze 1942
Director
The Adventuress from the Floor Above 1941
Director, Story, Screenplay
Notte di fortuna 1941
Director, Story, Screenplay
- L'imprevisto
L'imprevisto 1940
Writer, Screenplay
Giù il sipario 1940
Writer, Editor, Director
Trappola d'amore 1940
Director, Screenplay
Il marchese di Ruvolito 1939
Director, Screenplay
The Hotel of the Absent 1939
Director, Screenplay
L'amor mio non muore! 1938
Screenplay
I Was to Blame 1937
Director, Screenplay
Joe il Rosso 1936
Director
The Anonymous Roylott 1936
Editor, Director
The Serpent's Fang 1935
Director, Writer
Tourist Train 1933
as The Director of the Band (uncredited), Director, Story, Screenplay
Littoria 1933
Director
La Voce Lontana 1933
Screenplay
- Sabaudia
Sabaudia 1933
Director
Mussolinia di Sardegna 1933
Director
Two Happy Hearts 1932
Screenplay
Credits from TMDB.