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- Died
- Place
Raffaello Matarazzo
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.
As director
Amore mio
I terribili sette
Adultero lui, adultera lei
Cerasella
Melancholy Autumn
The Last Violence
Rice Girl
The White Angel
The Intruder
Torna!
The Slave of Sin
Guai ai vinti
The Ship of Condemned Women
Giuseppe Verdi
Vortice
He Who Is Without Sin...
Lieutenant Giorgio
Nobody's Children
Tormento
Paolo e Francesca
Dora la espía
Chains
The Opium Den
Lo sciopero dei milioni
Empezó en boda
Daddy's Little Devil
Giorno di nozze
The Adventuress from the Floor Above
Notte di fortuna
Trappola d'amore
