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