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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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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1924-02-09
- event Death Date 2013-11-26
- school Known for: Camera
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Marcello Gatti
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Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth
1992-01-01
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Marxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers
2004-08-01
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Beloved Days
2015-08-22
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Moses the Lawgiver
1974-12-22
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The Hassled Hooker
1972-04-07
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Burn!
1969-12-21
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The Four Days of Naples
1962-11-16
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The Anonymous Venetian
1970-09-30
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Cronaca di un delitto
1953-06-29
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The Window to Luna Park
1957-08-29
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In amore si pecca in due
1954-01-09
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Mr. Robinson
1976-12-23
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Dangerous Women
1958-11-26
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The Escape
1964-12-12
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Il peccato degli anni verdi
1960-12-21
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Bianco, rosso, giallo, rosa
1964-12-29
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Summer Frenzy
1964-02-04
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Husbands in the City
1957-12-18
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The Con Artists
1976-04-15
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Document Z-3
1943-04-12
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Toto and Carolina
1955-03-02
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The Salamander
1981-04-25
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Operation Ogre
1979-09-28
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So Long Gulliver
1970-11-14
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Handsome Antonio
1960-03-04
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Kapo
1960-09-27
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Position Wanted
1951-11-03
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I cuori infranti
1963-11-21
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The Black Belly of the Tarantula
1971-08-12
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Latin Lovers
1961-12-22
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Violenza sul lago
1954-07-07
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Sandstorm
1982-04-04
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William Tell
1948-04-08
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The Battle of Algiers
1966-09-08
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Ternosecco
1987-01-16
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Break Up
1978-11-07
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Run for Your Wife
1965-04-29
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Empty Eyes
1953-09-18
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What?
1972-12-07
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Girolimoni, the Monster of Rome
1972-09-18
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Abracadabra
1952-02-22
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Massacre in Rome
1973-10-04
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Everyone's in Love
1959-04-09
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L'Estate
1966-11-17
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Courtyard
1955-12-27
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Three Tigers Against Three Tigers
1977-11-15
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Sin
1971-01-01
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Venetian Red
1989-09-20
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Inganni
1985-01-08
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La carica delle patate
1979-01-01
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Chi dice donna, dice donna
1976-02-11
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Chronicle of the Year of Embers
1975-11-26
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Love Under the Elms
1975-09-08
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Killer Cop
1975-03-27
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What Did Stalin Do to Women?
1969-10-03
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The Protagonists
1968-06-07
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Via Tasso
1960-09-01
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Cronaca di un delitto
1953-06-29
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Volcano
1950-02-02
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I, Hamlet
1952-09-27
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Amore e ginnastica
1973-12-25
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Bastard, Go and Kill
1971-03-06
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A Day for Lionhearts
1961-09-05
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Lacrime d'amore
1954-12-28
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Blood, Sweat and Fear
1975-08-01
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Family Killer
1973-02-23
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I Kill, You Kill
1965-03-25
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Una vittoria (TV)
1988-02-07
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The Wonders of Aladdin
1961-10-31
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The Tall Women
1966-09-26
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Young Husbands
1958-03-13
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Ruthless Colt of the Gringo
1966-03-25
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Gli assi della risata
1943-11-01
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Gian Burrasca
1982-11-18
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The Screwball
1956-03-20
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The Big Night
1959-11-12
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The Attic
1963-03-29
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The Strange Night
1967-04-13
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Sierra Maestra
1969-09-01
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Delitti, amore e gelosia
1982-01-01
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Venere Paura
1990-01-01
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Moses the Lawgiver
1974-12-22