Overview
Pupi Avati
Known For
La Piazza che verrà, Bologna e il Cinema
La voglia matta di vivere
Pupi Avati, la tavola racconta
Paolo Conte, Come Away with Me
Documentary follows the life and work of Italian singer and...
Italy Possessed: A Brief History of Exorcist Rip-Offs
Feature length documentary including interviews with Sergio Martino, Alberto de...
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
27 aprile Racconto di un evento
The documentary starts from the sanctification of Pope Giovanni XXIII...
Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione
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.