Raffaello Matarazzo

Raffaello Matarazzo (Rome, 17 August 1909 – Rome, 17 May 1966) was an Italian film-maker.

Biography

He started writing film reviews for Roman newspaper Il Tevere before re-editing scripts for the Italian film company Cines. His first films were comedies until he moved to melodrama genre and with Catene, produced by Titanus in 1949, he became the most successful Italian director. Audience loved his melodramas. Critics don't, they said that Matarazzo made films Neorealismo d'appendice (neorealism wannabe). Lately the 70's some film critics try to restore the lost Matarazzo's fame. French magazine Positif loved his erotical - historical peplum Ship of Lost Women.

Filmography

• Littoria (1933)
• Treno popolare (1933)
• Kiki (1934)
• The Serpent's Fang (Il serpente a sonagli) (1935)
• Joe il rosso (1936)
• L'anonima Roylott (1936)
• È tornato carnevale (1937)
• It Was I (Sono stato io!) (1937)
• L'albergo degli assenti (1938)
• Il marchese di Ruvolito (1939)
• Giù il sipario (1940)
• Trappola d'amore (1940)
• Notte di fortuna (1941)
• L'avventuriera del piano di sopra (1941)
• Giorno di nozze (1942)
• Dora o le spie (1943)
• Il birichino di papà (1943)
• Empezó en boda (1944)
• Lo sciopero dei milioni (1947)
• La fumeria d'oppio (1947)
• Paolo e Francesca (1949)
• Catene (1949)
• I figli di nessuno (1951)
• Il tenente Giorgio (1952)
• Chi è senza peccato (1952)
• Vortice (1953)
• Torna! (1953)
• Tormento (1953)
• The Life and Music of Giuseppe Verdi (Giuseppe Verdi) (1953)
• Schiava del peccato (1954)
• Ship of Lost Women (La nave delle donne maledette) (1954)
• Guai ai vinti (1954)
• L'angelo bianco (1955)
• L'intrusa (1956)
• La risaia (1956)
• L'ultima violenza (1957)
• Cerasella (1959)
• Malinconico autunno (1959)
• I terribili sette (1963)
• Adultero lui, adultera lei (1963)
• Amore mio (1964)

External links

• Raffaello Matarazzo at IMDb.
• Criterion Collection Essay