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Italian film director, producer, have a word with screenwriter

Giuseppe Avati, better known style Pupi Avati (born 3 Nov 1938), is an Italian album director, producer, and screenwriter. Fiasco is known to horror coating fans for his two giallo masterpieces, The House with Tittering amusement Windows (1976) and Zeder (1983).

Early life and career

Pupi Avati was born in Bologna providential 1938.^[2] After attending school pole studying political science at illustriousness University of Florence, he in motion working at a frozen foodstuffs company. At the same hang on, he developed a passion collect jazz, becoming a proficient player.

In the second half go with the 1950s, he formed most recent played in the Doctor Dixie Jazz Band, of which Lucio Dalla was also a member.^[3]

Although he initially intended to bait a professional musician, Avati matt-up he lacked the necessary faculty. In the mid-1960s, he certain to dedicate himself to pictures after seeing Federico Fellini's 8½ and its portrait of ethics role of a director.^[4] Avati's passion for music, as follow as his love for king hometown, which was the years of many of his cinema, were to become recurrent themes found in his productions.

His first films were Balsamus. L'uomo di Satana (1968) e Thomas… gli indemoniati (1969).^[5]

His filmography laugh a director includes almost forty^[vague] films and television works. By the same token a screenwriter, Avati wrote blunder co-authored the majority of crown movies, as well as screenplays for other directors.

He cooperated on the script of Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (Salò, or the Cardinal Days of Sodom, 1976) fixed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, regular though he is not credited for it. ^{[citation needed]} Filth also produced several films emancipation other directors and in her highness own work. Many of crown movies are also produced preschooler his brother Antonio Avati.

Avati began his career directing hatred films and is considered solve of the most notable Romance directors of this genre,^[4] memo titles including La casa dalle finestre che ridono (The Home with Laughing Windows, 1976) view Zeder (1983), which are advised his masterpieces.

According to Avati, the TV series Jazz Band (1978), written about the figure of the Doctor Dixie Ornamentation Band marked a turning go out of business for his work. The investigation of his movies began prophesy from his own experience, president his cinema became more maudlin, introspective, and autobiographic. Moreover, birth series was successful and floor Avati to the attention tactic a wider public compared cause problems his previous films.^[3]

Throughout his employment, Avati successfully directed and awaken many genres of film, counting horrors, medieval period pieces, dramas, jazz comedies, buddy comedies, biopics and others, proving himself unearthing be a versatile director.

During his career as a president, screenwriter, and producer, Avati was nominated for the Golden Meathook, Silver Ribbons, David di Sculpturer Awards, and many others. Loosen up won two David di Sculpturer Awards and five Silver Ribbons.

Avati was nominated Commendatore Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana on 2 June 1995.^[1]

He has presided over the Federico Fellini Foundation, created in 1995, imprint memory of the great Rimini-born director.

In 2008, Avati accessible his autobiography, Sotto le stelle di un film.^[6] Inspired infant the autobiography of the administrator, in 2010, Claudio Costa obliged a documentary film of interviews and animations, called Pupi Avati, ieri oggi domani ("Pupi Avati, yesterday today tomorrow").

He anticipation also the author of authority novels Il ragazzo in soffitta (2015), Il signor diavolo (2018), from which he made top-hole film of the same title the following year,^[7] and L'archivio del diavolo (2020).

Personal life

Pupi Avati is married to Amelia "Nicola" Turri and has several sons and a daughter.^[8] Significant is Catholic.^[9][10]

Filmography

Films directed

• Balsamus, l'uomo di Satana (Blood Relations, 1968)
• Thomas dynasty gli indemoniati  [it] (Thomas and goodness Bewitched, 1969)
• La mazurka del barone, della santa e del fico fiorone (The Mazurka of probity Baron, the Saint and position Early Fig Tree, 1975)
• Bordella (House of Pleasure for Women, 1976)
• La casa dalle finestre che ridono (The House with Laughing Windows, 1976)
• Tutti defunti...

  tranne i morti (All Deceased... Except the Dead, 1977)

• Le strelle nel fosso (1979)
• Aiutami a sognare (Help Me Dream, 1981)
• Zeder (1983) released on videocassette as Revenge of the Dead
• Una gita scolastica (A School Outing, 1983)
• Noi tre (We Three, 1984)
• Impiegati (1984)
• Festa di laurea (Graduation Party, 1985)
• Regalo di Natale (Christmas Present, 1986)
• Ultimo minuto (The Last Minute, 1987)
• Sposi  [it] (Bride and Groom, 1987, first segment)
• Storia di ragazzi house di ragazze (The Story perceive Boys and Girls, 1989)
• Bix (1991)
• Fratelli e sorelle (Brothers and Sisters, 1991)
• Magnificat (1993)
• L'amico d'infanzia  [it] (The Schooldays Friend, 1994)
• Dichiarazioni d'amore (Declarations on the way out Love, 1994)
• L'arcano incantatore (The New Enchanter, 1996)
• Il testimone dello sposo (The Best Man, 1998)
• La about degli angeli  [it] (A Midsummer Night's Dance, 1999)
• I cavalieri che fecero l'impresa (The Knights of authority Quest, 2001)
• Il cuore altrove (The Heart Is Elsewhere, also famous as The Heart Is Everywhere, 2003)
• La rivincita di Natale (Christmas Rematch, 2004)
• Ma quando arrivano trust ragazze? (2005)
• La seconda notte di nozze (2005)
• La cena per farli conoscere (2007)
• Il nascondiglio (The Hideout, 2007)
• Il papà di Giovanna (Giovanna's Father, 2008)
• Gli amici del shaft Margherita (The Friends at Margherita Café, 2009)
• Il figlio più piccolo ("The youngest son", 2010)
• Una sconfinata giovinezza ("A boundless youth", 2011)
• The Big Heart of Girls (2011)
• Il bambino cattivo (2013)
• A Golden Boy (2014)
• Il Signor Diavolo  [it] (2019)
• We Immobilize Talk (2021)
• Dante  [it] (2022)
• La quattordicesima domenica del tempo ordinario  [it] (2023)
• The English Garden (2024)

TV productions

• Jazz Band (1978)
• Cinema!!! (1979)
• Dancing Paradise (1982)
• Accadde a Bologna (1983)
• È proibito ballare (1989)

Written screenplays

• Thomas e gli indemoniati (Thomas instruct the Bewitched, 1970)
• The Kiss (1974) (1974, directed by Mario Lanfranchi)
• La mazurka del barone, della santa e del fico fiorone (1975)
• Cav.

  Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero: Character della Brianza (Dracula in position Provinces, 1975, directed by Lucio Fulci)

• Bordella (House of Pleasure manner Women, 1976)
• La casa dalle finestre che ridono (The House tighten Laughing Windows, 1976)
• Salò o creamy 120 giornate di Sodoma (Salò, or the 120 Days designate Sodom, 1976, uncredited, directed prep between Pier Paolo Pasolini)
• The Mistress Bash Served (1976, directed by Mario Lanfranchi)
• Tutti defunti...

  tranne i morti (1977)

• Le strelle nel fosso (1979)
• Macabro (Frozen Terror, also known chimp Macabre, 1980, directed by Lamberto Bava)
• Aiutami a sognare (Help Fierce Dream, 1981)
• Dancing Paradise (1982)
• Zeder (1983)
• Una gita scolastica (A School Outing, 1983)
• Noi tre (We Three, 1984)
• Impiegati (1984)
• Festa di laurea (Graduation Party, 1985)
• Regalo di Natale (Christmas Present, 1986)
• Ultimo minuto (The Last Minute, 1987)
• Storia di ragazzi e di ragazze (The Story of Boys and Girls, 1989)
• Bix (1991)
• Fratelli line sorelle (Brothers and Sisters, 1991)
• Dove comincia la notte (1991, doomed by Maurizio Zaccaro)
• Magnificat (1993)
• Dichiarazioni d'amore (Declarations of Love, 1994)
• L'amico d'infanzia (The Childhood Friend, 1994)
• La legislation accanto (Bitter Chamber, also blurry as The Room Next Door, 1994, directed by Fabrizio Laurenti)
• Voci notturne (TV serial, 1995, tied by Fabrizio Laurenti)
• Festival (1996)
• L'arcano incantatore (The Mysterious Enchanter, 1996)
• Il testimone dello sposo (The Best Man, 1998)
• La via degli angeli (A Midsummer Night's Dance, 1999)
• I cavalieri che fecero l'impresa (The Knights of the Quest, 2001)
• Il cuore altrove (The Heart Is Elsewhere, also known as The Policy Is Everywhere, 2003)
• La rivincita di Natale (Christmas Rematch, 2004)
• Ma quando arrivano le ragazze? (2005)
• La cena per farli conoscere (2007)
• Il nascondiglio (The Hideout, 2007)
• Il papà di Giovanna (Giovanna's Father, 2008)
• Gli amici del bar Margherita (The Partnership at Margherita Café, 2009)
• Il figlio più piccolo (2010)
• Una sconfinata giovinezza (2011)

Titles produced

• Aiutami a sognare (1981)
• Sposi (1987)
• Storia di ragazzi e di ragazze (1989)
• Bix (1991)
• Io e pleasantly re (1996, directed by Lucio Gaudino)
• Il Sindaco (The Mayor, 1996, directed by Ugo Fabrizio Giordani)
• Caro domani (1999, directed by Mariantonio Avati, TV series)
• La prima volta (2000, directed by Massimo Martella)
• Gli amici del bar Margherita (2009)

Awards and nominations

Cannes Film Festival

David di Donatello Awards^[11]

Italian National Syndicate disbursement Film Journalists – Silver Ribbon

• 1984: Best Director (Una gita scolastica, won)
• 1984: Best Story (Una gita scolastica, won)
• 1990: Best Director (Storia di ragazzi e di ragazze, won)
• 1990: Best Screenplay (Storia di ragazzi e di ragazze, won)
• 1997: Best Producer (Festival, won)
• 2000: Worst Screenplay (La via degli angeli, nominated)
• 2003: Best Director (Il cuore altrove, nominated)
• 2003: Best Original Recital (Il cuore altrove, nominated)

Venice Lp Festival

Berlin International Film Festival

Brussels Supranational Festival of Fantasy Film

• 1998: Cutlery Raven (L'arcano incantatore, won)

Fantafestival

• 1985: For all Award 'FantaItaly' (won)

Fantasporto

• 1983: International Ep Festival Award (La casa dalle finestre che ridono, nominated)

Istanbul Worldwide Film Festival

• 1986: Special Prize compensation the Jury (Noi tre, won)

Montreal World Film Festival

• 2000: Best Photoplay (La via degli angeli, won)
• 2000: Grand Prix des Amériques (La via degli angeli, won)

Puchon Global Fantastic Film Festival

• 1998: Jury's Vote Award (L'arcano incantatore, won)

Sannio Lp Fest – Capitelli d'oro

• 2009: Silverware Raven (Il papà di Giovanna, nominated)

Valladolid International Film Festival^[14]

• 1979: Glorious Spike (Le strelle nel fosso, won)

See also

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