Raffaello Matarazzo


Raffaello Matarazzo was an Italian filmmaker.

Life

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 Chains, 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 Ship of Lost Women.

Filmography

The [Telephone Operator (1932 film)|The Telephone Operator] Littoria Fanny Tourist Train Unripe Fruit Kiki The Serpent's Fang Joe the Red The Ambassador The Anonymous Roylott The Carnival Is Here Again It Was I! The Hotel of the Absent The Marquis of Ruvolito Giù il sipario Love Trap Lucky Night The Adventuress from the Floor Above Wedding Day Dora o le spie Il birichino di papà Empezó en boda Lo sciopero dei milioni The Opium Den Paolo e Francesca Chains Torment Nobody's Children Lieutenant Giorgio Who is Without Sin Vortice Ship of Lost Women Torna! The Life and [Music of Giuseppe Verdi] Schiava del peccato Guai ai vinti The [White Angel (1955 film)|The White Angel] The Intruder Rice Girl L'ultima violenza Melancholic Autumn Cerasella I terribili sette Adultero lui, adultera lei