As Director, As Writer
Adultero lui, adultera lei
1963
5.0
Raffaello Matarazzo
Directing
Birth Date
August 17, 1909
Place of Birth
Rome, Italy
Date of Death
May 17, 1966
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.
Complete Filmography
As Director
Melancholy Autumn
1958
6.6
As Director, As Writer
The Intruder
1955
7.2
As Director
The White Angel
1955
6.1
As Director, As Writer
Guai ai vinti
1954
6.0
As Director
Torna!
1954
4.9
As Director, As Writer
Giuseppe Verdi
1953
5.5
As Director, As Writer
The Ship of Condemned Women
1953
6.8
As Director, As Writer
Vortice
1953
7.0
As Director
Lieutenant Giorgio
1952
6.0
As Director
Nobody's Children
1951
7.3
As Director
Tormento
1950
6.5
As Director
Chains
1949
6.4
As Director, As Writer
The Hotel of the Absent
1939
6.0