Pupi Avati
Directing • Born 1938-11-03
Biography
Pupi (Giuseppe) Avati was born in Bologna in 1938. After attending school and studying Political Science at the University of Florence, he started working at a frozen food company. At the same time, he developed a passion for jazz, becoming a proficient clarinetist. In the second half of the 1950s, he formed and played in the Doctor Dixie Jazz Band, of which Lucio Dalla was also a member.[3] Although he initially intended to be a professional musician, Avati felt he lacked the necessary talent. In the mid-1960s, he decided to dedicate himself to cinema after seeing Federico Fellini's 8½ and its portrait of the role of a director.[4] Avati's passion for music, as well as his love for his hometown, which was the setting of many of his films, were to become recurrent themes found in his productions.
Filmography
27 credits
Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione
Movie • 2014
Self
La voglia matta di vivere
Movie • 2022
Self
Biasanòt
Movie • 2023
Flaiano: il meglio è passato
Movie • 2010
Paolo Conte, Come Away with Me
Movie • 2020
Self
Pupi Avati, la tavola racconta
Movie • 2021
C'era una volta il prossimamente
Movie • 2014
Self
Portrait Of My Father
Movie • 2010
Self
The Day of the Two Holy Popes
Movie • 2015
Welcome Mr. President!
Movie • 2013
Potere Forte
Bava Puzzle
Movie • 2018
Himself
Executioners, Masks, Secrets: Italian Horror in the Sixties
Movie • 2019
Self
Italy Possessed: A Brief History of Exorcist Rip-Offs
Movie • 2020
Himself
27 aprile Racconto di un evento
Movie • 2014
Self
Lili Marlene - La guerra degli italiani
Movie • 2020
Noi c'eravamo
Movie • 2011
Self
Vorrei sparire senza morire
Movie • 2021
Sé stesso
La Piazza che verrà, Bologna e il Cinema
Movie • 2022
Self
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
Movie • 2009
Self
Alberto Sordi Secret
Movie • 2024
L'incanto
Movie • 2025
Self
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
Movie • 2025
Painted Screams
Movie • 2025
Sé stesso
Souvenir d'Italie
Movie • 2022
Pupi Avati: Questa sera vi porto al cinema
Movie • 2004
Self
Domenica In
TV • 1976
Self
Quelli che il cinema
TV • 2025
Self