Career
Arata worked on more than a hundred films between 1918 and his death in 1947. Arata entered cinema in the silent era, and worked prolifically during the 1920s including on one of the final entries into the long-running Maciste series. He was employed on the first Italian sound film The Song of Love (1930).
Arata worked with Roberto Rossellini on the 1945 neorealist drama Rome, Open City.
He was instrumental in securing the backing of the distribution" company Minerva Film for the production"s release. Following the Second World War, Arata worked on several co-productions with Britain and the United States.