Pupi Avati
Directing
Born November 3, 1938 · 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.
Directed (53)
The American Backyard
2025
Un Natale a casa Croce
2024
Nato il sei ottobre
2024
La quattordicesima domenica del tempo ordinario
2023
Dante
2022
Lei mi parla ancora
2021
Mr. Devil
2019
Il fulgore di Dony
2018
Laura's Wedding
2015
Sun in My Eyes
2015
A Golden Boy
2014
The Bad Child
2013
The Big Heart of Girls
2011
A Second Childhood
2010
Il figlio più piccolo
2010
The Friends At The Margherita Café
2009
Giovanna's Father
2008
The Hideout
2007
A Dinner for Them to Meet
2007
The Second Wedding Night
2005
Ma quando arrivano le ragazze?
2005
Christmas Rematch
2004
Incantato
2003
Knights Of The Quest
2001
Midsummer Night Dance
1999
The Best Man
1997
Festival
1996
Arcane Sorcerer
1996
Declarations of Love
1994
The Childhood Friend
1994
Magnificat
1993
Brothers and Sisters
1992
Bix
1991
The Story of Boys and Girls
1989
Sposi
1988
The Last Minute
1987
Christmas Present
1986
Graduation Party
1985
Impiegati
1985
The Three of Us
1984
A School Trip
1983
Revenge of the Dead
1983
Dancing Paradise
1982
Help Me Dream
1981
Cinema!!!
1979
The Stars in the Ditch
1979
All The Souls... Except the Dead
1977
The House with Laughing Windows
1976
House of Pleasure for Women
1976
The Baron's Mazurka
1975
Thomas
1970
Blood Relations
1970
Nel tepore del ballo
Acting (25)
Painted Screams
2025
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
2025
L'incanto
2025
Alberto Sordi Secret
2024
Biasanòt
2023
Souvenir d'Italie
2022
La Piazza che verrà, Bologna e il Cinema
2022
La voglia matta di vivere
2022
Pupi Avati, la tavola racconta
2021
Vorrei sparire senza morire
2021
Paolo Conte, Come Away with Me
2020
Lili Marlene - La guerra degli italiani
2020
Italy Possessed: A Brief History of Exorcist Rip-Offs
2020
Executioners, Masks, Secrets: Italian Horror in the Sixties
2019
Bava Puzzle
2018
The Day of the Two Holy Popes
2015
27 aprile Racconto di un evento
2014
Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione
2014
C'era una volta il prossimamente
2014
Welcome Mr. President!
2013
Noi c'eravamo
2011
Portrait Of My Father
2010
Flaiano: il meglio è passato
2010
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
2009
Pupi Avati: Questa sera vi porto al cinema
2004