Pupi Avati
Born: 1938-11-03 in Bologna, Italy
Known For: Directing
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
2026
- The Warmth of Dance ... (Director)
2025
- Quelli che il cinema as Self
- The American Backyard ... (Director)
- La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
- Painted Screams as Sé stesso
- L'incanto as Self
2024
- Nato il sei ottobre ... (Director)
- Un Natale a casa Croce ... (Director)
- Alberto Sordi Secret
2023
- La quattordicesima domenica del tempo ordinario ... (Director)
- Biasanòt
2022
- Dante ... (Director)
- La voglia matta di vivere as Self
- Souvenir d'Italie
- La Piazza che verrà, Bologna e il Cinema as Self
2021
- Lei mi parla ancora ... (Executive Producer)
- Pupi Avati, la tavola racconta
- Vorrei sparire senza morire as Sé stesso
2020
2019
- Mr. Devil ... (Screenplay)
- Executioners, Masks, Secrets: Italian Horror in the Sixties as Self
2018
- Il fulgore di Dony ... (Writer)
- Bava Puzzle as Himself
2015
- Laura's Wedding ... (Director)
- Sun in My Eyes ... (Story)
- The Day of the Two Holy Popes
2014
- A Golden Boy ... (Screenplay)
- Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione as Self
- C'era una volta il prossimamente as Self
- 27 aprile Racconto di un evento as Self
2013
- Un matrimonio ... (Writer)
- Welcome Mr. President! as Potere Forte
- The Bad Child ... (Director)
2011
- Noi c'eravamo as Self
- Se sei così, ti dico sì ... (Producer)
- The Big Heart of Girls ... (Director)
2010
- A Second Childhood ... (Writer)
- Il figlio più piccolo ... (Writer)
- Portrait Of My Father as Self
- Flaiano: il meglio è passato
2009
- Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad as Self
- The Friends At The Margherita Café ... (Director)
2008
- Giovanna's Father ... (Director)
2007
- A Dinner for Them to Meet ... (Director)
- The Hideout ... (Director)
2005
- The Second Wedding Night ... (Director)
- Ma quando arrivano le ragazze? ... (Director)
2004
- Christmas Rematch ... (Director)
- Pupi Avati: Questa sera vi porto al cinema as Self
2003
- Incantato ... (Director)
2001
- Knights Of The Quest ... (Director)
1999
- Midsummer Night Dance ... (Director)
1997
- The Mayor ... (Producer)
- The Best Man ... (Director)
1996
- Arcane Sorcerer ... (Director)
- Festival ... (Director)
1995
- Night Voices ... (Screenplay)
1994
- The Room Next Door ... (Writer)
- The Childhood Friend ... (Director)
- Declarations of Love ... (Director)
1993
- Magnificat ... (Director)
1992
- Brothers and Sisters ... (Screenplay)
1991
- Where the Night Begins ... (Writer)
- Bix ... (Director)
1989
- The Story of Boys and Girls ... (Director)
- E' proibito ballare ... (Supervising Art Director)
1988
- Sposi ... (Director)
1987
- The Last Minute ... (Director)
1986
- Christmas Present ... (Director)
1985
- Impiegati ... (Director)
- Graduation Party ... (Director)
1984
- The Three of Us ... (Director)
1983
- Revenge of the Dead ... (Director)
- A School Trip ... (Director)
1982
- Che fai... ridi? ... (Director)
- Dancing Paradise ... (Director)
1981
- Help Me Dream ... (Director)
1980
- Macabre ... (Writer)
1979
- Cinema!!! ... (Director)
- The Stars in the Ditch ... (Director)
1978
- Jazz band ... (Director)
1977
- All The Souls... Except the Dead ... (Director)
1976
- Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom ... (Writer)
- Domenica In as Self
- The House with Laughing Windows ... (Director)
- House of Pleasure for Women ... (Director)
- The Mistress is Served ... (Screenplay)
1975
- Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza ... (Screenplay)
- The Baron's Mazurka ... (Screenplay)
1974
- The Kiss ... (Writer)
1970
- Thomas ... (Story)
- Blood Relations ... (Story)
1968
- Satanik ... (First Assistant Director)