Marcello Gatti
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 [2] 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).
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Movies (79)
Beloved Days
2015
Marxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers
2004 · Self
Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth
1992 · Self
Venere Paura
1990 · Director of Photography
Venetian Red
1989 · Director of Photography
Ternosecco
1987 · Director of Photography
Inganni
1985 · Director of Photography
Gian Burrasca
1982 · Assistant Camera
Sandstorm
1982 · Assistant Director of Photography
Delitti, amore e gelosia
1982 · Director of Photography
The Salamander
1981 · Director of Photography
Operation Ogre
1979 · Director of Photography
La carica delle patate
1979 · Director of Photography
Break Up
1978 · Director of Photography
Three Tigers Against Three Tigers
1977 · Director of Photography
Mr. Robinson
1976 · Director of Photography
The Con Artists
1976 · Director of Photography
Moses the Lawgiver
1976 · Director of Photography
Chi dice donna, dice donna
1976 · Director of Photography
Chronicle of the Years of Fire
1975 · Director of Photography
Love Under the Elms
1975 · Director of Photography
Blood, Sweat and Fear
1975 · Director of Photography
Killer Cop
1975 · Director of Photography
Love and Gymnastics
1973 · Director of Photography
Massacre in Rome
1973 · Director of Photography
Family Killer
1973 · Director of Photography
What?
1972 · Director of Photography
Girolimoni, the Monster of Rome
1972 · Director of Photography
The Hassled Hooker
1972 · Director of Photography
The Black Belly of the Tarantula
1971 · Director of Photography
Bastard, Go and Kill
1971 · Director of Photography
Sin
1971 · Director of Photography
So Long Gulliver
1970 · Director of Photography
The Anonymous Venetian
1970 · Director of Photography
Burn!
1969 · Director of Photography
What Did Stalin Do to Women?
1969 · Director of Photography
Sierra Maestra
1969 · Director of Photography
The Protagonists
1968 · Director of Photography
The Strange Night
1967 · Director of Photography
L'Estate
1966 · Director of Photography
The Tall Women
1966 · Director of Photography
The Battle of Algiers
1966 · Director of Photography
Ruthless Colt of the Gringo
1966 · Director of Photography
Run for Your Wife
1965 · Second Unit Director of Photography
I Kill, You Kill
1965 · Director of Photography
La Fuga
1965 · Director of Photography
Bianco, rosso, giallo, rosa
1964 · Director of Photography
Summer Frenzy
1964 · Director of Photography
I cuori infranti
1963 · Director of Photography
The Attic
1963 · Director of Photography
The Four Days of Naples
1962 · Director of Photography
Latin Lovers
1961 · Director of Photography
The Wonders of Aladdin
1961 · Second Assistant Camera
A Day for Lionhearts
1961 · Director of Photography
Il peccato degli anni verdi
1960 · Camera Operator
Kapo
1960 · Camera Operator
Via Tasso
1960 · Director of Photography
Il bell'Antonio
1960 · Camera Operator
The Big Night
1959 · Camera Operator
Everyone's in Love
1959 · Camera Operator
Dangerous Women
1958 · Camera Operator
Young Husbands
1958 · Camera Operator
Husbands in the City
1957 · Camera Operator
The Window to Luna Park
1957 · Camera Operator
The Screwball
1956 · Camera Operator
Courtyard
1955 · Camera Operator
Toto and Carolina
1955 · Camera Operator
Lacrime d'amore
1954 · Camera Operator
Violenza sul lago
1954 · Camera Operator
In amore si pecca in due
1954 · Camera Operator
Empty Eyes
1953 · Camera Operator
Cronaca di un delitto
1953 · Camera Operator, Director of Photography
I, Hamlet
1952 · Camera Operator
Abracadabra
1952 · Camera Operator
Position Wanted
1951 · Camera Operator
Vulcano
1950 · Assistant Camera
William Tell
1948 · Camera Operator
Gli assi della risata
1943 · Assistant Camera
Document Z-3
1943 · Camera Operator
