Directing
Pupi Avati
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
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Quelli che il cinema
Welcome Mr. President!
In a small mountain village lives a man with a challenging name, Giuseppe Garibaldi (one of Italy's "fathers of...
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...
Paolo Conte, Come Away with Me
Documentary follows the life and work of Italian singer and composer Paolo Conte.
Portrait Of My Father
A labor of love documentary, in which a daughter, with the help of various talking heads, looks back on the lif...
Noi c'eravamo
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
Painted Screams
A feature length documentary on the 1976 film 'The House with Laughing Windows' by Pupi Avati.
La voglia matta di vivere
Pupi Avati, la tavola racconta
27 aprile Racconto di un evento
The documentary starts from the sanctification of Pope Giovanni XXIII and Pope Giovanni Paolo II and tells the...
Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione
Executioners, Masks, Secrets: Italian Horror in the Sixties
The Day of the Two Holy Popes
"History is not just what you read in books, history often reveals itself with its extraordinary scope, already...
La Piazza che verrà, Bologna e il Cinema
Bava Puzzle
Through the anecdotes and stories of actors, directors, critics and experts, this documentary traces the career...
Alberto Sordi Secret
The documentary film consists previously unpublished testimonies from friends and relatives of the actor, inclu...
C'era una volta il prossimamente
A passionate cavalcade through decades of "coming attractions"
Lili Marlene - La guerra degli italiani
Flaiano: il meglio è passato
Italy Possessed: A Brief History of Exorcist Rip-Offs
Feature length documentary including interviews with Sergio Martino, Alberto de Martino, Ovidio G. Assonitis an...
Pupi Avati: Questa sera vi porto al cinema
Souvenir d'Italie
Vorrei sparire senza morire
About love and death: starting from the small cemetery in San Leo, where many of his loved ones are buried, Pup...
Biasanòt
L'incanto
Enchantment explores the magic of cinema through the lens of Pupi Avati, a master of Italian cinema, and the hi...