Pupi Avati
Director
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
Welcome Mr. President!
as Potere Forte 2013
Paolo Conte, Come Away with Me
as Self 2020
Portrait Of My Father
as Self 2010
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
as Self 2019
Pupi Avati, la tavola racconta
2021
Noi c'eravamo
as Self 2011
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
as Self 2009
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
2025
Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione
as Self 2014
La voglia matta di vivere
as Self 2022
Biasanòt
2023
Flaiano: il meglio è passato
2010
C'era una volta il prossimamente
as Self 2014
The Day of the Two Holy Popes
2015
Bava Puzzle
as Himself 2018
Italy Possessed: A Brief History of Exorcist Rip-Offs
as Himself 2020
27 aprile Racconto di un evento
as Self 2014