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Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1938-11-03

Place of Birth

Bologna, Italy

Pupi Avati

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.

Known for

Domenica In

Domenica In

Quelli che il cinema

Quelli che il cinema

Stolen Moments

Stolen Moments

Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione

Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione

Painted Screams

Painted Screams

A feature length documentary on the 1976 film 'The House with Laughing Windows' by Pupi Avati.

Biasanòt

Biasanòt

Venticinque anni di culto

Venticinque anni di culto

Documentary about Pupi Avati's film.

Welcome Mr. President!

Welcome Mr. President!

In a small mountain village lives a man with a challenging name, Giuseppe Garibaldi (one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland"), but everybody call him with the nickname Peppino. Love fishing, the company of friends, the library where he works as a precarious employee. He is an optimistic person even if his child accuse him of being a wannabe. One day, due to a mess of politicians, an amazing thing happens: Peppino is mistakenly elected President of the Italian Republic. Pulled out from his quiet life, is to play a role for which he knows he is obviously inappropriate, but his common sense and his instinctive gestures are incredibly effective, except for the etiquette, for which he is in trouble. The inflexible and fascinating Deputy Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic, Janis Clementi, is anxious to no avail in an attempt to regulate the unpredictable actions of the President...

Alberto Sordi Secret

Alberto Sordi Secret

The documentary film consists previously unpublished testimonies from friends and relatives of the actor, including director Pupi Avati, announcer and TV presenter Rosanna Vaudetti, Totò's niece Elena de Curtis, paparazzi king Rino Barillari, Patrizia and Giada de Blanck, Sabrina Sammarini, director of photography Sergio D'Offizi, Tiziana Appetito and Alessandro Canestrelli,. It also features family photos, and original videos and audio.

L'incanto

L'incanto

Enchantment explores the magic of cinema through the lens of Pupi Avati, a master of Italian cinema, and the history of Milan's Odeon, a now-closed Art Deco masterpiece. A personal and visual journey through memory, belonging, and the imagination, where animations, archival footage, and intimate conversations intertwine to tell the story not only of an auteur, but of cinema's very power to enchant and transform.

Pupi Avati: Questa sera vi porto al cinema

Pupi Avati: Questa sera vi porto al cinema

Flaiano: il meglio è passato

Flaiano: il meglio è passato

Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad

Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad

This portrait of the Italian director & actor, Pietro Germi, explores his work, from Italian neorealism to the birth of the Italian comedy. He constructed his movies in a conventional way but also experimented new path. His favorite actresses such as Clau

C'era una volta il prossimamente

C'era una volta il prossimamente

A passionate cavalcade through decades of "coming attractions"

La Piazza che verrà, Bologna e il Cinema

La Piazza che verrà, Bologna e il Cinema