Raffaello Matarazzo

Raffaello Matarazzo (1936)

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

Life

Matarazzo 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 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; they say that Matarazzo made films Neorealismo d'appendice (neorealism wannabe). Since the 70's, some film critics have tried to restore Matarazzo's reputation. French magazine Positif loved his erotical - historical peplum Ship of Lost Women.

Filmography

• The Telephone Operator (1932)
• Littoria (1933)
• Tourist Train (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! (1937)
• L'albergo degli assenti (1938)
• Il marchese di Ruvolito (1939)
• Giù il sipario (1940)
• Trappola d'amore (1940)
• Notte di fortuna (1941)
• The Adventuress from the Floor Above (1941)
• Giorno di nozze (1942)
• Dora o le spie (1943)
• Il birichino di papà (1943)
• Empezó en boda (1944)
• Lo sciopero dei milioni (1947)
• The Opium Den (1947)
• Paolo e Francesca (1949)
• Chains (1949)
• Torment (1950)
• Nobody's Children (1951)
• Il tenente Giorgio (1952)
• Who is Without Sin (1952)
• Vortice (1953)
• Ship of Lost Women (La nave delle donne maledette) (1953)
• Torna! (1953)
• The Life and Music of Giuseppe Verdi (Giuseppe Verdi) (1953)
• Schiava del peccato (1954)
• Guai ai vinti (1954)
• The White Angel (1955)
• L'intrusa (1956)
• La risaia (1956)
• L'ultima violenza (1957)
• Melancholic Autumn (1958)
• Cerasella (1959)
• I terribili sette (1963)
• Adultero lui, adultera lei (1963)
• Amore mio (1964)

External links

• Raffaello Matarazzo at IMDb.
• Criterion Collection Essay