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Catene (internationally released as Chains) is a 1949 Italian melodrama film directed by Raffaello Matarazzo.It had an impressive commercial success, being seen by 6 million people, one in eight Italians of the time, and was followed by a series of six other successful films directed by Matarazzo and featuring the couple Amedeo Nazzari and Yvonne Sanson.
- Goffredo Lombardo, Raffaello Matarazzo
Feb 4, 2005 · Goffredo Lombardo. This article is more than 19 years old. ... Titanus was producing and distributing popular melodramas, mostly directed by Raffaello Matarazzo. His I Figli Di Nessuno (Nobody's ...
Goffredo Lombardo inaugurated his resplendent career by dedicating the third remake of the melodrama I figli di nessuno (Raffaello Matarazzo, 1951) to his mother, who had acted in it in 1921.
After years of making mostly comedies and literary adaptations, Raffaello Matarazzo turned to melodrama with this intense tale of a tight-knit working-class family shattered by temptation. There’s a touch of noir in Chains, in which the saintly yet earthy Yvonne Sanson, as the devoted wife of a mechanic (Amedeo Nazzari), finds herself unwillingly drawn back to an ex-love who has turned to crime.
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Aug 29, 2015 · Shortly thereafter, the studio began producing a brilliant string of intense melodramas by director Raffaello Matarazzo. Upon the death of Gustavo Lombardo in 1951, leadership of the studio passed to his son Goffredo just as the generation of young filmmakers who would revolutionize Italian cinema began to emerge.
Jun 21, 2011 · Chains: Bound for Glory Film history is replete with artists embraced by critics but misunderstood by the public. For Italian filmmaker Raffaello Matarazzo, it was the opposite. After working for almost two decades as a midlevel studio director of pictures that enjoyed varying success, mainly light comedies and adaptations of novels, Matarazzo broke through to box-office glory with a series of ...
Goffredo Lombardo inaugura la sua splendente carriera dedicando alla madre il terzo remake del melodramma I figli di nessuno (Raffaello Matarazzo, 1951), da lei interpretato nel 1921.
