# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/raffaele-mertes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:51:40.623Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/raffaele-mertes"
name: "Raffaele Mertes"
slug: "raffaele-mertes"
description: "Raffaele Mertes is an Italian film director. He began as a cinematographer, with his first work being on the 1982 film Un gusto molto particolare. His first film as director was the made-for-TV biblical film Ester in 1998."
tagline: "Italian film director and cinematographer"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/c79OXZe4qXgcrczqQMgMq31AGU3.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Italy"
  isoCode: "IT"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1959"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.01
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.681786666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0581591/"
    handle:    "nm0581591"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%84_%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%B9%D8%B3"
    title: "رافیل میرٹس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "رافايل ميرتيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffaele_Mertes"
    title: "Raffaele Mertes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffaele_Mertes"
    title: "Raffaele Mertes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%84%D9%87_%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "رافائله مرتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffaele_Mertes"
    title: "Raffaele Mertes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffaele_Mertes"
    title: "Raffaele Mertes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffaele_Mertes"
    title: "Raffaele Mertes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2127108"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/23951"
    title: "Raffaele Mertes"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump