Director

Raffaello Matarazzo

Directing

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Directed movies: 28Directed series: 0All crew credits: 40

TMDB ID: 234569

IMDb ID: nm0558127

Known for: Directing

Born: August 17, 1909

Died: May 17, 1966

Age: 56

Place of birth: Rome, Italy

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1932 - 1964

Years active: 33

Average TMDB rating: 6.15

Wikidata: Q53024

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Biography

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.