Marcello Gatti

Marcello Gatti

Known for: Camera
Biography: 1924-02-09
Deathday: 2013-11-26 (89 years old)

Biography

Marcello Gatti (Rome, February 9, 1924 - Rome, November 26, 2013) was an Italian cinematographer.


He was one of Italy's most important cinematographers. During his long career, he won five Nastri d'argento, photographed two Oscar-nominated films The Battle of Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo and The Four Days of Naples by Nanni Loy, and another Palme d'Or at Cannes Chronicle of the Embers years; he worked among others with Roman Polanski, Carlo Lizzani, George Pan Cosmatos and Giancarlo Giannini, who chose him for his directorial debut with Ternosecco.


The film for which he is often remembered is The Battle of Algiers (1966), which won the Golden Lion at Venice and had three Oscar nominations, standing out precisely because of a memorable black-and-white, grainy, documentary photography inspired by the style of cinéma vérité that Gatti had already begun to elaborate in Nanni Loy's Le quattro giornate di Napoli (1962), also nominated for an Oscar.


With Pontecorvo he also shot Queimada and Ogro. After the success of The Battle of Algiers Roman Polański entrusted him with his 1972 Italian film Che?, starring Marcello Mastroianni. Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina brought him back to Algeria to make Chroniques des années de braise, Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1975.


Among the more than 150 films he worked on were several poliziotteschi, including Mark the Policeman and The Police Have Their Hands Tied; thrillers such as The Black-Bellied Tarantula; and comedies such as Mr. Robinson, Monstrous Story of Love and Adventure, Bluff - A Tale of Swindles and Swindlers, and Three Tigers vs.


Of the five Nastri d'Argento he obtained, two he won in the same year, 1970, taking the prize both in the black and white category for Ansano Giannarelli's Sierra Maestra and in the color category for Enrico Maria Salerno's Anonimo veneziano. Remaining of his television work are Nanni Loy's Specchio segreto; scripts with Gianni Morandi such as Voglia di cantare; the fifth and sixth series of the crime thriller La piovra with Vittorio Mezzogiorno's poignant farewell; Carlo Lizzani's Assicurazione sulla morte; and Moses with Burt Lancaster.


Always close to the ideals of the left, Gatti was arrested in 1943 for defacing a portrait of Mussolini on the walls of Cinecittà, being sentenced to five years in prison, later changed to confinement; and in 1968 he occupied the Centro sperimentale di cinematografia with students and other Italian film personalities such as Marco Bellocchio and Bernardo Bertolucci. He was a longtime president of the Italian Association of Cinematographers (Aic).

Filmography

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Movies 81

Director 51

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Director of Photography
Venetian Red

Venetian Red (1989)

Movie
Director of Photography
Una vittoria (TV)

Una vittoria (TV) (1988)

Movie
Director of Photography
Ternosecco

Ternosecco (1987)

Movie
Director of Photography
Inganni

Inganni (1985)

Movie
Assistant Director of Photography
Sandstorm

Sandstorm (1982)

Movie
Director of Photography
The Salamander

The Salamander (1981)

Movie
Director of Photography
Operation Ogre

Operation Ogre (1979)

Movie
Director of Photography
La carica delle patate

La carica delle patate (1979)

Movie
Director of Photography
Break Up

Break Up (1978)

Movie
Director of Photography
Mr. Robinson

Mr. Robinson (1976)

Movie
Director of Photography
The Con Artists

The Con Artists (1976)

Movie
Director of Photography
Love Under the Elms

Love Under the Elms (1975)

Movie
Director of Photography
Blood, Sweat and Fear

Blood, Sweat and Fear (1975)

Movie
Director of Photography
Killer Cop

Killer Cop (1975)

Movie
Director of Photography
Moses the Lawgiver

Moses the Lawgiver (1974)

Movie
Director of Photography
Amore e ginnastica

Amore e ginnastica (1973)

Movie
Director of Photography
Massacre in Rome

Massacre in Rome (1973)

Movie
Director of Photography
Family Killer

Family Killer (1973)

Movie
Director of Photography
What?

What? (1972)

Movie
Director of Photography
The Hassled Hooker

The Hassled Hooker (1972)

Movie
Director of Photography
Bastard, Go and Kill

Bastard, Go and Kill (1971)

Movie
Director of Photography
Sin

Sin (1971)

Movie
Director of Photography
So Long Gulliver

So Long Gulliver (1970)

Movie
Director of Photography
The Anonymous Venetian

The Anonymous Venetian (1970)

Movie
Director of Photography
Burn!

Burn! (1969)

Movie
Director of Photography
Sierra Maestra

Sierra Maestra (1969)

Movie
Director of Photography
The Protagonists

The Protagonists (1968)

Movie
Director of Photography
The Strange Night

The Strange Night (1967)

Movie
Director of Photography
L'Estate

L'Estate (1966)

Movie
Director of Photography
The Tall Women

The Tall Women (1966)

Movie
Director of Photography
The Battle of Algiers

The Battle of Algiers (1966)

Movie
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Second Unit Director of Photography
Run for Your Wife

Run for Your Wife (1965)

Movie
Director of Photography
I Kill, You Kill

I Kill, You Kill (1965)

Movie
Director of Photography
The Escape

The Escape (1964)

Movie
Director of Photography
Summer Frenzy

Summer Frenzy (1964)

Movie
Director of Photography
I cuori infranti

I cuori infranti (1963)

Movie
Director of Photography
The Attic

The Attic (1963)

Movie
Director of Photography
Latin Lovers

Latin Lovers (1961)

Movie
Second Assistant Camera
The Wonders of Aladdin

The Wonders of Aladdin (1961)

Movie
Director of Photography
A Day for Lionhearts

A Day for Lionhearts (1961)

Movie
Camera Operator
Kapo

Kapo (1960)

Movie
Director of Photography
Via Tasso

Via Tasso (1960)

Movie
Camera Operator
Courtyard

Courtyard (1955)

Movie
Camera Operator
Empty Eyes

Empty Eyes (1953)

Movie
Camera Operator / Director of Photography
Cronaca di un delitto

Cronaca di un delitto (1953)

Movie
Camera Operator
I, Hamlet

I, Hamlet (1952)

Movie
Assistant Camera
Volcano

Volcano (1950)

Movie

Information

Known For
Camera

Gender
Male

Birthday
1924-02-09

Deathday
2013-11-26 (89 years old)

Birth Place
Rome, Italy

Citizenships
Kingdom of Italy, Italy

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