Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthdate
1938-11-03 (Age: 88)
Place of Birth
Bologna, Italy
Pupi Avati
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 (25)
Painted Screams
2025
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
2025
L'incanto
2025
Alberto Sordi Secret
2024
Biasanòt
2023
Souvenir d'Italie
2022
La Piazza che verrà, Bologna e il Cinema
2022
La voglia matta di vivere
2022Pupi Avati, la tavola racconta
2021
Vorrei sparire senza morire
2021
Paolo Conte, Come Away with Me
2020Lili Marlene - La guerra degli italiani
2020
Italy Possessed: A Brief History of Exorcist Rip-Offs
2020
Executioners, Masks, Secrets: Italian Horror in the Sixties
2019
