Raffaello Matarazzo was an Italian

Italy

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 film-maker.

Biography

He 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 moved to melodrama genre and with Catene, produced by Titanus

Titanus

Titanus is an Italian film production company, founded in 1904 by Gustavo Lombardo . The company's headquarters are located at 28 Via Sommacampagna, Rome and its studios on the Via Tiburtina, 13 km from the centre of Rome....

 in 1949, he became the most successful Italian director. Audience loved his melodramas. Critics don't, they said that Matarazzo made films Neorealismo d'appendice (neorealism wannabe). Lately the 70's some film critics try to restore the lost Matarazzo's fame. French magazine Positif

Positif

Positif was a 1984 album by Jean-Jacques Goldman, his third solo album sung in French. It was recorded at Studio Gang by Olivier do Espirito Santo and Jean-Pierre Janiaud...

 loved his erotical - historical peplum Ship of Lost Women.

Filmography

• Littoria (1933)
• Treno popolare (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 (Sono stato io!) (1937)
• L'albergo degli assenti (1938)
• Il marchese di Ruvolito (1939)
• Giù il sipario (1940)
• Trappola d'amore (1940)
• Notte di fortuna (1941)
• L'avventuriera del piano di sopra (1941)
• Giorno di nozze (1942)
• Dora o le spie (1943)
• Il birichino di papà (1943)
• Empezó en boda (1944)
• Lo sciopero dei milioni (1947)
• La fumeria d'oppio (1947)
• Paolo e Francesca (1949)
• Catene (1949)
• I figli di nessuno (1951)
• Il tenente Giorgio (1952)
• Chi è senza peccato (1952)
• Vortice (1953)
• Torna! (1953)
• Tormento (1953)
• The Life and Music of Giuseppe Verdi  (Giuseppe Verdi) (1953)
• Schiava del peccato
  Schiava del peccato
  Schiava del peccato is a 1954 Italian comedy film directed by Raffaello Matarazzo.-Cast:* Miranda Campa* Giorgio Capecchi* Olinto Cristina* Adriana Danieli* Mirella Di Lauri* Franca Dominici* Checco Durante* Franco Fabrizi - Carlo...
  
   (1954)
• Ship of Lost Women (La nave delle donne maledette) (1954)
• Guai ai vinti (1954)
• L'angelo bianco (1955)
• L'intrusa (1956)
• La risaia (1956)
• L'ultima violenza (1957)
• Cerasella (1959)
• Malinconico autunno (1959)
• I terribili sette (1963)
• Adultero lui, adultera lei (1963)
• Amore mio (1964)

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