Raffaello Matarazzo
Raffaello Matarazzo ( born August 17, 1909 in Rome, † May 17, 1966 ) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Life
Matarazzo was active in his early years as a film critic for " Il Giornale di Sicilia " and " L' Italia LETTERARIA " before he turned to the cinema in 1931, for which he initially then worked as an assistant director and as a screenwriter. After the short film Mussolini di Sardegna and two other scripts he made his debut in 1933 Popolare for the cinema with the highly successful and inventiven Treno in which Matarazzo anticipated designs of Italian neorealism and the critics and audience was enthusiastically received. With his following films Matarazzo could not maintain this level; often is average comedies banal content. It was not until 1949 he was with Catene ( German title atonement without sin ) he "Film Lab " was shooting for the " Titanus " and, again to land a big success. The criminal melodrama was occupied by Amedeo Nazzari and Yvonne Sanson and a major box office success; Matarazzo was similar films with similar cash earnings follow. Until his death at age 56, he varied this formula with decreasing success. The in his lifetime by critics because of its artistic developments often maligned later learned a reassessment.