Maria de Matteis

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Maria de Matteis (born March 6, 1898 in Florence , Italy , † December 9, 1988 in Rome ) was an Italian costume designer .

Life

Born in Florence, she received her artistic training in her hometown and then worked as an illustrator of fairy tale books. De Matteis made her first contact with the theater through the established stage costume designer Gino Carlo Sensani and became his assistant. In the early years of the sound film she tried her luck in Cinecittà and assisted a. a. 1937 with the elaborate costume creation for the propagandistic-tendentious historical material " Karthagos Fall " . It was only late, on the eve of the Second World War , that Maria de Matteis was able to work independently in film for the first time. She quickly advanced to become the most important representative of her field in Italy, who in the next half century provided a wealth of domestic and Italian-made international films and, most recently, lavish television productions with costumes. During these decades she collaborated with some of the most important directors of her time, including Luchino Visconti , Alberto Lattuada , Orson Welles , Jean Renoir , Mario Soldati , Carmine Gallone , King Vidor , Martin Ritt , Richard Fleischer , John Huston and Sergej Bondartschuk .

Despite her intensive film activity, de Matteis remained connected to the theater, where she a. a. collaborated again with Visconti and also with Franco Zeffirelli and Giorgio Strehler and took care of classical theater productions such as Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida , Colette's “ Gigi ”, Molière's The Miser and “ Iphigenie bei den Taurern ” by Euripides in terms of costume technology and occasionally also scenography. It was only at the age of 87 that she retired into private life.

Awards

Maria de Matteis has received numerous awards and has been nominated for other prizes. These include:

Filmography

for the movie, unless otherwise stated

  • 1939: Le educande di Saint-Cyr
  • 1939: Il marchese di Ruvolito
  • 1940: Don Pasquale
  • 1940: Giù il sipario
  • 1941: I pirati della Malesia
  • 1941: Piccolo mondo antico
  • 1942: Malombra
  • 1942: Don Cesare di Bazan
  • 1942: Sissignora
  • 1942: Ossessione - Obsessed with love ( Ossessione )
  • 1943: Enrico IV
  • 1944: La donna della Montagna
  • 1944: Zazà
  • 1946: Mio figlio professore
  • 1946: Il paese senza pace
  • 1947: La figlia del capitano
  • 1947: Vanità
  • 1947: Addio Mimí!
  • 1948: L'ultima cena
  • 1948: Guarany
  • 1948: Guglielmo Tell
  • 1948: The Mill on the Po ( Il mulino del Po )
  • 1949: Vespro siciliano
  • 1949: Patto col diavolo
  • 1950: Romanzo d'amore
  • 1950: Monk and Musketeer ( Il figlio di d'Artagnan )
  • 1951: Lorenzaccio
  • 1951: Miracle of a Voice - Enrico Caruso ( Enrico Caruso, leggenda di una voce )
  • 1951: Othello
  • 1952: The golden body ( La carrozza d'oro )
  • 1952: City without morals ( Processo alla città )
  • 1952: La fiammata
  • 1952: On the sword's point ( A fil di spada )
  • 1953: Aida
  • 1953: It's a shame you're a rascal ( Peccato che sia una canaglia )
  • 1953: Casa Ricordi
  • 1954: Carousel Naples ( Carosello napoletano )
  • 1954: This is how life works ( Questa è la vita )
  • 1954: Casanova - his loves and adventures ( Le avventure di Giacomo Casanova )
  • 1954: Gran varietà
  • 1954: Casta Diva
  • 1955: Change of Heart ( La vena d'oro )
  • 1956: War and Peace ( War and Peace )
  • 1956: Tosca
  • 1957: Hot coast ( La diga sul Pacifico )
  • 1958: Storm in the East ( La tempesta )
  • 1958: Fortunella
  • 1959: The Red Corsair's Retribution ( Il figlio del corsaro rosso )
  • 1959: Jovanka and the others ( Jovanka e le altre )
  • 1960: Maciste, the avenger of the pharaohs ( Maciste nella valle dei re )
  • 1960: Gastone
  • 1960: The haunted castle in Via Veneto ( Fantasmi a Roma )
  • 1961: Barabbas ( Barabba )
  • 1961: An odd saint ( The Reluctant Saint )
  • 1962: La città prigioniera
  • 1964: Casanova '70
  • 1965: Our man in Rio ( Se tutte le donne del mondo / Operazione paradiso )
  • 1965: The Bible ( La bibbia )
  • 1966: The girl and the general ( La ragazza e il generale )
  • 1967: Vita di Cavour (TV movie)
  • 1968: Miss Doctor
  • 1969: Five Sons of Dogs ( Cinque figli di cane )
  • 1970: Waterloo
  • 1975: Prete, fai un miracolo
  • 1982: Giuseppe Verdi - An Italian Legend ( Verdi ) (nine-part television film)
  • 1985: Cristoforo Colombo (TV multi-part)

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personal data
SURNAME De Matteis, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian costume designer
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence , Italy
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1988
Place of death Rome