Pupi Avati
Pupi Avati ( born November 3, 1938 in Bologna; actually Giuseppe Avati ) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and film producer.
Life
Avati began in his youth, to make music; He played clarinet in the Criminal Dixie Jazz Band and from 1957 with the Reno Dixieland Band. Several appearances on radio programs were in addition to numerous live performances, in which he also Lucio Dalla met, with whom he 1965 Musical Ma è poi esistito Louis Procope wrote and performed.
His livelihood earned Avati, who studied political science in Bologna but without complete the program as a worker in a company for frozen products. In 1968 he was able through his contacts in the film industry filming his first movie and was in the following years, initially responsible for some unusual genre films. His later work ranges from the comedy about the biographical Bix ( about Bix Beiderbecke ) to action-packed movies. Here, its distinctive style often eludes categorization. He is one of the few Italian filmmakers who turned regularly feature films until the first decade of the new millennium. These were often produced by AVATIS brother Antonio ( * 1943).