Marcello Gatti
- Known for
- Camera
- Born
- February 9, 1924
- Died
- November 26, 2013 (aged 89)
- Birthplace
- Rome, Italy
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 [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).
Known For
Filmography
Venere Paura
Movie · Director of Photography
Venetian Red
Movie · Director of Photography
Una vittoria
TV · Director of Photography · 2 eps
Ternosecco
Movie · Director of Photography
Inganni
Movie · Director of Photography
Gian Burrasca
Movie · Assistant Camera
Delitti, amore e gelosia
Movie · Director of Photography
The Salamander
Movie · Director of Photography
Operation Ogre
Movie · Director of Photography
La carica delle patate
Movie · Director of Photography
Break Up
Movie · Director of Photography
Three Tigers Against Three Tigers
Movie · Director of Photography
Moses the Lawgiver
Movie · Director of Photography
Mr. Robinson
Movie · Director of Photography
The Con Artists
Movie · Director of Photography
Chi dice donna, dice donna
Movie · Director of Photography
Chronicle of the Years of Fire
Movie · Director of Photography
Love Under the Elms
Movie · Director of Photography
Killer Cop
Movie · Director of Photography
Blood, Sweat and Fear
Movie · Director of Photography
Moses the Lawgiver
TV · Director of Photography · 7 eps
Massacre in Rome
Movie · Director of Photography
Love and Gymnastics
Movie · Director of Photography
Family Killer
Movie · Director of Photography
The Hassled Hooker
Movie · Director of Photography
What?
Movie · Director of Photography
Girolimoni, the Monster of Rome
Movie · Director of Photography
The Black Belly of the Tarantula
Movie · Director of Photography
Sin
Movie · Director of Photography
Bastard, Go and Kill
Movie · Director of Photography
The Anonymous Venetian
Movie · Director of Photography
So Long Gulliver
Movie · Director of Photography
Burn!
Movie · Director of Photography
What Did Stalin Do to Women?
Movie · Director of Photography
Sierra Maestra
Movie · Director of Photography
The Protagonists
Movie · Director of Photography
The Strange Night
Movie · Director of Photography
The Battle of Algiers
Movie · Director of Photography
L'Estate
Movie · Director of Photography
The Tall Women
Movie · Director of Photography
Ruthless Colt of the Gringo
Movie · Director of Photography
La Fuga
Movie · Director of Photography
Run for Your Wife
Movie · Second Unit Director of Photography
I Kill, You Kill
Movie · Director of Photography
Bianco, rosso, giallo, rosa
Movie · Director of Photography
Summer Frenzy
Movie · Director of Photography
I cuori infranti
Movie · Director of Photography
The Attic
Movie · Director of Photography
The Four Days of Naples
Movie · Director of Photography
Latin Lovers
Movie · Director of Photography
A Day for Lionhearts
Movie · Director of Photography
The Wonders of Aladdin
Movie · Second Assistant Camera
Il peccato degli anni verdi
Movie · Camera Operator
Il bell'Antonio
Movie · Camera Operator
Kapo
Movie · Camera Operator
Via Tasso
Movie · Director of Photography
Everyone's in Love
Movie · Camera Operator
The Big Night
Movie · Camera Operator
Dangerous Women
Movie · Camera Operator
Young Husbands
Movie · Camera Operator
The Window to Luna Park
Movie · Camera Operator
Husbands in the City
Movie · Camera Operator
The Screwball
Movie · Camera Operator
Toto and Carolina
Movie · Camera Operator
Courtyard
Movie · Camera Operator
In amore si pecca in due
Movie · Camera Operator
Violenza sul lago
Movie · Camera Operator
Lacrime d'amore
Movie · Camera Operator
Cronaca di un delitto
Movie · Camera Operator, Director of Photography
Empty Eyes
Movie · Camera Operator
Abracadabra
Movie · Camera Operator
I, Hamlet
Movie · Camera Operator
Position Wanted
Movie · Camera Operator
Vulcano
Movie · Assistant Camera
William Tell
Movie · Camera Operator
Document Z-3
Movie · Camera Operator
Gli assi della risata
Movie · Assistant Camera