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.
26 movies · 2 shows
Painted Screams
2025·0.0
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
2025·7.0
L'incanto
2025·0.0
Alberto Sordi Secret
2024·0.0
Biasanòt
2023·0.0
Souvenir d'Italie
2022·0.0
La Piazza che verrà, Bologna e il Cinema
2022·0.0
La voglia matta di vivere
2022·9.0
Pupi Avati, la tavola racconta
2021·0.0
Vorrei sparire senza morire
2021·0.0
Paolo Conte, Come Away with Me
2020·7.2
Lili Marlene - La guerra degli italiani
2020·0.0
Italy Possessed: A Brief History of Exorcist Rip-Offs
2020·0.0
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
2019·7.3
Bava Puzzle
2018·0.0
The Day of the Two Holy Popes
2015·0.0
27 aprile Racconto di un evento
2014·0.0
Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione
2014·0.0
C'era una volta il prossimamente
2014·0.0
Welcome Mr. President!
2013·6.2
Noi c'eravamo
2011·10.0
Portrait Of My Father
2010·7.3
Flaiano: il meglio è passato
2010·0.0
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
2009·7.0
Pupi Avati: Questa sera vi porto al cinema
2004·0.0
Venticinque anni di culto
2002·0.0