Raffaello Matarazzo (17 August 1909 – 17 May 1966) 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

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. 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'' (neorealism wannabe). 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 ''The Ship of Condemned Women'' (Italian: ''La nave delle donne maledette'') is a 1953 Italian historical adventure-melodrama film written and directed by Raffaello Matarazzo and starring Kerima, May Britt and Ettore Manni. It is loosely based ...

''.

Filmography

* '' The Telephone Operator'' (1932) * '' Littoria'' (1933) * ''

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'' (1933) * ''

Tourist Train ''Tourist Train'' (Italian: ''Treno popolare'') is a 1933 Italian comedy film directed by Raffaello Matarazzo and starring Marcello Spada, Lina Gennari and Carlo Petrangeli. The film portrays the comic adventures of a group of summertime travelle ...

'' (1933) * '' Unripe Fruit'' (1934) * ''

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'' (1934) * ''

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'' (''Il serpente a sonagli'') (1935) * '' Joe the Red'' (1936) * '' The Ambassador'' (1936) * '' The Anonymous Roylott'' (1936) * '' The Carnival Is Here Again'' (1937) * ''

It Was I! ''It Was I!'' (Italian: ''Sono stato io!'') is a 1937 Italian comedy film directed by Raffaello Matarazzo and starring Eduardo De Filippo, Peppino De Filippo and Titina De Filippo.Moliterno p.101 The film was based on a play, ''Sarà stato Giovanni ...

'' (1937) * '' L'albergo degli assenti'' (1938) * '' The Marquis of Ruvolito'' (1939) * '' Giù il sipario'' (1940) * ' (1940) * ''

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'' (1941) * '' The Adventuress from the Floor Above'' (1941) * ''

Giorno di nozze ''Wedding Day'' (Italian: ''Giorno di nozze'') is a 1942 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film directed by Raffaello Matarazzo and starring Armando Falconi, Amelia Chellini and Anna Proclemer.Gundle p.174 It was shot at the Cinecitta Studios i ...

'' (1942) * ''

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'' (1943) * '' Il birichino di papà'' (1943) * '' Empezó en boda'' (1944) * ''

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'' (1947) * '' The Opium Den'' (1947) * '' Paolo e Francesca'' (1949) * ''

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'' (1949) * '' Torment'' (1950) * '' Nobody's Children'' (1951) * ''

Il tenente Giorgio ''Il Tenente Giorgio'' is a 1952 Italian historical melodrama film directed by Raffaello Matarazzo. Cast * Massimo Girotti as Lt. G. Biserta * Milly Vitale as Countess Elisa * Paul Muller as Count Stefano di Monserrato * Gualtiero Tumiat ...

'' (1952) * '' Who is Without Sin'' (1952) * '' Vortice'' (1953) * ''

'' (''La nave delle donne maledette'') (1953) * '' Torna!'' (1953) * ''

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'' (''Giuseppe Verdi'') (1953) * '' Schiava del peccato'' (1954) * '' Guai ai vinti'' (1954) * '' The White Angel'' (1955) * '' The Intruder'' (1956) * ''

La risaia ''Rice Girl'' ( it, La risaia) is a 1956 Italian melodrama film directed by Raffaello Matarazzo. Plot Pietro, the owner of a large paddy, recognizes among his young workers Elena, his natural daughter. He then begins to follow her and to prote ...

'' (1956) * '' L'ultima violenza'' (1957) * '' Melancholic Autumn'' (1958) * '' Cerasella'' (1959) * ''

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'' (1963) * '' Adultero lui, adultera lei'' (1963) * ''

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'' (1964)

External links

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Criterion Collection Essay
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