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name: "Otello Martelli"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/otello-martelli"
fi1m_id: "otello-martelli"
imdb_id: "nm0005786"
tmdb_id: 5399
wikidata_id: "Q506106"
roles: ["Cinematographer"]
born: "19 May 1902"
died: "20 February 2000"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T03:56:39.880129+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Otello Martelli

## Identity

Otello Martelli

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/otello-martelli
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** otello-martelli
- **IMDb ID:** nm0005786
- **TMDB ID:** 5399
- **Wikidata ID:** Q506106
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otello_Martelli, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q506106, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005786/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5399

Cinematographer. Born 19 May 1902 in Rome, Italy. Died 20 February 2000.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Born:** 19 May 1902, Rome, Italy
- **Died:** 20 February 2000
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otello_Martelli, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q506106, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005786/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5399

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Paisan*](https://film.one/film/paisan.md) (84)

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## Biography

Otello Martelli was an Italian cinematographer. Born in Rome on 19 May 1902, he began working in the film industry as an assistant cameraman during the silent era and later shot newsreels for Istituto Luce, including coverage of the 1928 Nobile polar expedition. His first major feature credit came in 1934 with Alessandro Blasetti’s *Vecchia guardia*.

Martelli became closely associated with Italian neorealism and the work of Roberto Rossellini and Federico Fellini. He photographed Rossellini’s *Paisan* (1946) and *Stromboli* (1950), Giuseppe De Santis’s *Bitter Rice* (1949) and several Fellini films, among them *Variety Lights* (1950), *I Vitelloni* (1953), *La Strada* (1954), *The Swindle* (1955) and *La Dolce Vita* (1960). He also contributed to *Boccaccio ’70* (1962).

Martelli died in Rome on 20 February 2000.

*Sources: theguardian.com, en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Paisan* (1946), Fi1m 84, Director of Photography, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/paisan.md)

## Complete filmography (62)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Death Walks in Laredo* (1967), Director of Photography
- *Menage Italian Style* (1965), Director of Photography
- *Scouting in Palestine* (1965), Director of Photography
- *The Three Faces* (1965), Director of Photography
- *Woman Is a Wonderful Thing* (1964), Director of Photography
- *My Wife* (1964), Director of Photography
- *Cyrano and d'Artagnan* (1964), Director of Photography
- *The Teacher from Vigevano* (1963), Director of Photography
- *Cuba '58* (1962), Director of Photography
- *Boccaccio '70* (1962), Director of Photography
- *The Temptation of Dr. Antonio* (1962), Director of Photography
- *Girl in the Window* (1961), Director of Photography
- *Stories of the Revolution* (1960), Director of Photography
- *La Dolce Vita* (1960), Director of Photography
- *The Law* (1959), Director of Photography
- *Holiday Island* (1957), Director of Photography
- *This Angry Age* (1957), Director of Photography
- *Guendalina* (1957), Director of Photography
- *What a Woman!* (1956), Director of Photography
- *The Swindle* (1955), Director of Photography
- *Woman of the River* (1954), Director of Photography
- *Days of Love* (1954), Director of Photography
- *La Strada* (1954), Director of Photography
- *We, the Women* (1953), Director of Photography
- *The Chicken* (1953), Director of Photography
- *Condemned to Hang* (1953), Director of Photography
- *I Vitelloni* (1953), Director of Photography
- *A Husband for Anna* (1953), Director of Photography
- *Rome 11:00* (1952), Director of Photography
- *Anna* (1951), Director of Photography
- *Honeymoon Deferred* (1951), Director of Photography
- *The Flowers of St. Francis* (1950), Director of Photography
- *Variety Lights* (1950), Director of Photography
- *Stromboli* (1950), Director of Photography
- *Bitter Rice* (1949), Director of Photography
- *Black Magic* (1949), Director of Photography
- *Tragic Hunt* (1947), Director of Photography
- *The Great Dawn* (1947), Director of Photography
- *Paisan* (1946), Director of Photography — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/paisan.md)
- *In High Places* (1945), Director of Photography
- *The Gorgon* (1942), Director of Photography
- *Tragic Night* (1942), Director of Photography
- *Il bravo di Venezia* (1941), Director of Photography
- *Il re del circo* (1941), Director of Photography
- *Lucrezia Borgia* (1940), Director of Photography
- *Allegri masnadieri* (1939), Director of Photography
- *Papà per una notte* (1939), Director of Photography
- *I, His Father* (1939), Director of Photography
- *Jeanne Doré* (1938), Director of Photography
- *Hands Off Me!* (1937), Director of Photography
- *Gli uomini non sono ingrati* (1937), Director of Photography
- *Marcella* (1937), Director of Photography
- *Arma bianca* (1936), Director of Photography
- *L'antenato* (1936), Director of Photography
- *Un bacio a fior d'acqua* (1936), Director of Photography
- *I'll Give a Million* (1935), Director of Photography
- *Old Guard* (1934), Director of Photography
- *La mia vita sei tu* (1934), Director of Photography
- *Il Natale a Roma* (1933), Director
- *Norge* (1926), Director
- *La Ferita* (1923), Cinematography
- *La donna nuda* (1922), Director of Photography

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