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Raffaello Matarazzo
Rome, Italy
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…
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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.
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1964
Amore mio
Movie Screenplay
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1963
Adultero lui, adultera lei
Movie Director
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1963
I terribili sette
Movie Director
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1959
Cerasella
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1958
Melancholy Autumn
Movie Director
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1957
The Last Violence
Movie Director
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1956
Rice Girl
Movie Director
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1955
The Intruder
Movie Director
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1955
The White Angel
Movie Story
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1955
Good night… lawyer!
Movie Story
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1954
Guai ai vinti
Movie Screenplay
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1954
The Slave of Sin
Movie Director
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1954
Torna!
Movie Producer
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1953
Giuseppe Verdi
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1953
The Ship of Condemned Women
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1953
Vortice
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1952
He Who Is Without Sin...
Movie Director
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1952
Lieutenant Giorgio
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1951
Nobody's Children
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1950
Dora la espía
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1950
Paolo e Francesca
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1950
Tormento
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1949
Chains
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1947
The Opium Den
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1947
Lo sciopero dei milioni
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1944
Empezó en boda
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1943
Daddy's Little Devil
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1942
Giorno di nozze
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1941
The Adventuress from the Floor Above
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1941
Notte di fortuna
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1940
L'imprevisto
Movie Writer
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1940
Giù il sipario
Movie Writer
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1940
Trappola d'amore
Movie Screenplay
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1939
Il marchese di Ruvolito
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1939
The Hotel of the Absent
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1938
L'amor mio non muore!
Movie Screenplay
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1937
I Was to Blame
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1936
Joe il Rosso
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1936
The Anonymous Roylott
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1935
The Serpent's Fang
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