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
Painted Screams
2025
as Sé stesso
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
2025
L'incanto
2025
as Self
Alberto Sordi Secret
2024
Biasanòt
2023
Souvenir d'Italie
2022
La Piazza che verrà, Bologna e il Cinema
2022
as Self
La voglia matta di vivere
2022
as Self
- No poster
Pupi Avati, la tavola racconta
2021
Vorrei sparire senza morire
2021
as Sé stesso
Paolo Conte, Come Away with Me
2020
as Self
- No poster
Lili Marlene - La guerra degli italiani
2020
Italy Possessed: A Brief History of Exorcist Rip-Offs
2020
as Himself
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
2019
as Self
Bava Puzzle
2018
as Himself
The Day of the Two Holy Popes
2015
27 aprile Racconto di un evento
2014
as Self
Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione
2014
as Self
C'era una volta il prossimamente
2014
as Self
Welcome Mr. President!
2013
as Potere Forte
Noi c'eravamo
2011
as Self
Portrait Of My Father
2010
as Self
- No poster
Flaiano: il meglio è passato
2010
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
2009
as Self