Raffaello Matarazzo

Director, Productor, Escritor, Actor

17 de agosto de 1909 — 17 de mayo de 1966 (56 años)
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.

Conocido por

  • Cadenas invisibles
    Cadenas invisibles1949
  • Los hijos de nadie
    Los hijos de nadie1951
  • El ángel blanco
    El ángel blanco1955
  • Tormento
    Tormento1950
  • Chi è senza peccato....
    Chi è senza peccato....1952
  • Mercado de mujeres
    Mercado de mujeres1953
  • Rice Girl
    Rice Girl1956
  • Buonanotte... avvocato!
    Buonanotte... avvocato!1955
  • Tragedia y triunfo de Verdi
    Tragedia y triunfo de Verdi1953
  • Vuelve a mi vida
    Vuelve a mi vida1954
  • Treno popolare
    Treno popolare1933
  • La fumeria d'oppio
    La fumeria d'oppio1947
  • La aventurera del piso de arriba
    La aventurera del piso de arriba1941
  • Café de puerto
    Café de puerto1958
  • Desesperada
    Desesperada1956
  • Il birichino di papà
    Il birichino di papà1943
  • Giorno di nozze
    Giorno di nozze1942
  • Odio, amor y castigo
    Odio, amor y castigo1953
  • La última violencia
    La última violencia1957
  • Amor mío
    Amor mío1964

Filmography

1964
My Love · as Screenplay
1959
Cerasella · as Screenplay
1958
Malinconico autunno · as Screenplay
1956
The Intruder · as Screenplay
1954
Guai ai vinti · as Screenplay
1954
Torna! · as Screenplay
1953
1953
1951
Nobody's Children · as Screenplay
1947
La fumeria d'oppio · as Screenplay
1943
1942
Giorno di nozze · as Screenplay
1941

1933
Treno popolare · as The Director Of The Band (uncredited)

1963
1961
L'ultima violenza · as Story
1955
The White Angel · as Story
1955
1953
Vortice · as Story
1952
Chi è senza peccato.... · as Producer: Labor Films
1950
Tormento · as Scenario
1933
Treno popolare · as Story