Name
Pupi Avati
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1938-11-03 (88 years old)
Place of Birth
Bologna, Italy
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.
Known For
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Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 12...
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Ruthless businessman Luciano reconnects with his estranged family from a previous marriage...
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Shunned by his church, a seminary student takes refuge with an excommunicated priest who t...
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A young journalist buys a used typewriter and notices some text still legible on the ribbo...
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In 1271, the Seventh Crusade has failed. During their retreat, the troops transport the re...
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In a small mountain village lives a man with a challenging name, Giuseppe Garibaldi (one o...
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Stefano, a young restorer, is commissioned to save a controversial mural located in the ch...
- 2014 Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione as Self
- 2022 La voglia matta di vivere as Self
- 2023 Biasanòt
- 2010 Flaiano: il meglio è passato
- 2020 Paolo Conte, Come Away with Me as Self
- 2021 Pupi Avati, la tavola racconta
- 2014 C'era una volta il prossimamente as Self
- 2010 Portrait Of My Father as Self
- 2015 The Day of the Two Holy Popes
- 2013 Welcome Mr. President! as Potere Forte
- 2018 Bava Puzzle as Himself
- 2019 Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta as Self
- 2020 Italy Possessed: A Brief History of Exorcist Rip-Offs as Himself
- 2014 27 aprile Racconto di un evento as Self
- 2020 Lili Marlene - La guerra degli italiani
- 2011 Noi c'eravamo as Self
- 2021 Vorrei sparire senza morire as Sé stesso
- 2022 La Piazza che verrà, Bologna e il Cinema as Self
- 2009 Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad as Self
- 2024 Alberto Sordi Secret
- 2025 L'incanto as Self
- 2025 La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
- 2025 Painted Screams as Sé stesso
- 2022 Souvenir d'Italie
- 2004 Pupi Avati: Questa sera vi porto al cinema as Self
- 2002 Venticinque anni di culto as Self - Director
- 1976 Domenica In ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2025 Quelli che il cinema ( 20 episodes ) as Self
