Marcello Gatti
Marcello Gatti ( born February 9, 1924 in Rome, † November 26, 2013 ) was an Italian cinematographer.
Life
Gatti learned the craft of the camera operator from the ground up and worked with the leading Italian cameramen of the 50s. Gatti impressed with his documentary style a whole range of socially committed films, for example, for the director Gillo Pontecorvo. He also photographed many inconsequential spaghetti westerns, crime films and comedies. For television, Gatti worked, for example in a season of the series The Octopus.
Throughout his career, he won a Silver Ribbon five times.
1943 Gatti was sentenced to five years in prison for defacing a portrait of Benito Mussolini, after he had gone into exile. After starting out as a camera leader in the 1940s, he photographed in 1953 for the first time as a cameraman and at the beginning of the 1960s, as the person responsible in this area. In his filmography can be found around 150 plants.