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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]

Movies with Pupi Avati

• Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione (2014) — Self
• Welcome Mr. President! (2013) — Potere Forte
• La voglia matta di vivere (2022) — Self
• Painted Screams (2025) — Sé stesso
• La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione (2025)
• Portrait Of My Father (2010) — Self
• Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad (2009) — Self
• C'era una volta il prossimamente (2014) — Self
• Italy Possessed: A Brief History of Exorcist Rip-Offs (2020) — Himself
• Paolo Conte, Come Away with Me (2020) — Self
• Venticinque anni di culto (2002) — Self - Director
• Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta (2019) — Self