Pupi Avati

Known for DirectingBorn 1938-11-03 (age 87)Bologna, Italy

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Noi c'eravamo

E' proibito ballare

Jazz band

La voglia matta di vivere

Executioners, Masks, Secrets: Italian Horror in the Sixties

Night Voices

The Stars in the Ditch

Il fulgore di Dony

Cinema!!!

Thomas

Paolo Conte, Come Away with Me

Portrait Of My Father

The Best Man

La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione

Christmas Present

Dancing Paradise

Declarations of Love

Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad

A School Trip

The House with Laughing Windows

The Mayor

Graduation Party

Christmas Rematch

Help Me Dream

Giovanna's Father

Arcane Sorcerer

The Warmth of Dance

A Second Childhood

Where the Night Begins

The American Backyard

The Story of Boys and Girls

The Baron's Mazurka

Incantato

The Three of Us

Midsummer Night Dance

Lei mi parla ancora

Welcome Mr. President!

Revenge of the Dead

Magnificat

The Second Wedding Night

Un Natale a casa Croce

Bix

Mr. Devil

The Hideout

Impiegati

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

Festival

The Childhood Friend