Folco Quilici

Directing

Folco Quilici

Born — Died

1930-04-09 — 2018-02-24

Place of birth

Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Folco Quilici (9 April 1930 – 24 February 2018) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed a total of 22 films between 1952 and his retirement in 2005, including Tiko and the Shark (it). His 1955 film L'ultimo paradiso won the Silver Bear in the documentary category at the 7th Berlin International Film Festival.

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

Only One Survived poster
8.0

Four buddies set out on a three-week deep-sea fishing holiday in the Amazon and run into trouble.

Only One Survived

1990

Dagli Appennini alle Ande poster
6.2

A young boy travels by himself to reach his sick mother.

Dagli Appennini alle Ande

1959

Dagli Appennini alle Ande poster
6.2

A young boy travels by himself to reach his sick mother.

Dagli Appennini alle Ande

1959

Slave Trade in the World Today poster
4.9

The film documents modern slave trade through a number of African countries, under dictatorship rule. The filming was conducted both in public places, and sometimes with the use of hidden cameras, for high impact scenes of nudity, sex, and violence - and a few surprises, as slaves made out of peregrins to Asia, and slave traders paid in traveller checks.

Slave Trade in the World Today

1964

Tiko and the Shark poster
7.5

Filmed in French Polynesia with a Hawaiian cast, the story revolves around the adventures and romances of a young Polynesian boy as he grows up. As a child he raises and trains a baby shark as a pet, which he shares with his island playmate Diana. After a decade the three are reunited, but the world has changed: Tiko and Diana have become adults; the shark has become a dangerous man-eater; and civilization has encroached on the tropical island.

Tiko and the Shark

1962

Tiko and the Shark poster
7.5

Filmed in French Polynesia with a Hawaiian cast, the story revolves around the adventures and romances of a young Polynesian boy as he grows up. As a child he raises and trains a baby shark as a pet, which he shares with his island playmate Diana. After a decade the three are reunited, but the world has changed: Tiko and Diana have become adults; the shark has become a dangerous man-eater; and civilization has encroached on the tropical island.

Tiko and the Shark

1962

L'Italia vista dal cielo: Liguria poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

L'Italia vista dal cielo: Liguria

1973

L'Italia vista dal cielo: Sicilia poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

L'Italia vista dal cielo: Sicilia

1970

L'Italia vista dal cielo: Sicilia poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

L'Italia vista dal cielo: Sicilia

1970

The Sixth Continent poster
8.0

This 95-minute, full-color documentary was released in the U.S. as Sixth Continent. That continent is Africa -- or, more specifically, the coast of Ethiopia. Director Folco Quillici takes his cameras deep, deep into the waters near the coastal islands of Dalach, observing the passing parade of sea life on an up-close-and-personal basis. Particularly thrilling is a shark attack and its aftermath, with the cinematographers obviously in the thick of things. Gian Caspare Napolitano provides the narration, while the lush, evocative musical score is the handiwork of Roberto Nicolosi.

The Sixth Continent

1954

The Sixth Continent poster
8.0

This 95-minute, full-color documentary was released in the U.S. as Sixth Continent. That continent is Africa -- or, more specifically, the coast of Ethiopia. Director Folco Quillici takes his cameras deep, deep into the waters near the coastal islands of Dalach, observing the passing parade of sea life on an up-close-and-personal basis. Particularly thrilling is a shark attack and its aftermath, with the cinematographers obviously in the thick of things. Gian Caspare Napolitano provides the narration, while the lush, evocative musical score is the handiwork of Roberto Nicolosi.

The Sixth Continent

1954

L'Italia vista dal cielo: Lazio poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

L'Italia vista dal cielo: Lazio

1975

L'Italia vista dal cielo: Lazio poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

L'Italia vista dal cielo: Lazio

1975

God Under the Skin poster
9.0

An investigative film about characters who reject an existence in the world of consumerism and frenzied urbanization, seeking a new relationship with "different" communities and nature.

God Under the Skin

1974

God Under the Skin poster
9.0

An investigative film about characters who reject an existence in the world of consumerism and frenzied urbanization, seeking a new relationship with "different" communities and nature.

God Under the Skin

1974

The Last Paradise poster
3.7

A 1955 Italian independent film, released in the USA in 1956, which is basically a travelogue telling four stories, each about a different island in the South Pacific. Native customs, tribal rites,ceremonial procedure, courtships, and feats of strength and courage are depicted. The test of courage, for males, on one island , is a leap from a high wooden tower to the ground with a thin vine wrapped around their ankle breaking the fall at the last minute. The first bungee-jumpers?

The Last Paradise

1955

The Last Paradise poster
3.7

A 1955 Italian independent film, released in the USA in 1956, which is basically a travelogue telling four stories, each about a different island in the South Pacific. Native customs, tribal rites,ceremonial procedure, courtships, and feats of strength and courage are depicted. The test of courage, for males, on one island , is a leap from a high wooden tower to the ground with a thin vine wrapped around their ankle breaking the fall at the last minute. The first bungee-jumpers?

The Last Paradise

1955

The Last Paradise poster
3.7

A 1955 Italian independent film, released in the USA in 1956, which is basically a travelogue telling four stories, each about a different island in the South Pacific. Native customs, tribal rites,ceremonial procedure, courtships, and feats of strength and courage are depicted. The test of courage, for males, on one island , is a leap from a high wooden tower to the ground with a thin vine wrapped around their ankle breaking the fall at the last minute. The first bungee-jumpers?

The Last Paradise

1955

L'Italia vista dal cielo: Basilicata e Calabria poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

L'Italia vista dal cielo: Basilicata e Calabria

1967

L'Italia vista dal cielo: Basilicata e Calabria poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

L'Italia vista dal cielo: Basilicata e Calabria

1967

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

L'Italia vista dal cielo: Veneto e Venezia

1968

Fratello mare poster
8.0

The Work completes the "quadrilogy" of South Seas seen over a twenty-year period. This film, tells the choral story of an island that in the short time of a generation loses its identity.

Fratello mare

1975

Fratello mare poster
8.0

The Work completes the "quadrilogy" of South Seas seen over a twenty-year period. This film, tells the choral story of an island that in the short time of a generation loses its identity.

Fratello mare

1975

Native Drums poster
10.0

A team of doctors sets out through a steamy African jungle to check an outbreak of sleeping sickness.

Native Drums

1955

L'Italia vista dal cielo: Toscana poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

L'Italia vista dal cielo: Toscana

1971

L'Italia vista dal cielo: Toscana poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

L'Italia vista dal cielo: Toscana

1971

No artwork available
NR

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L'Italia vista dal cielo: Abruzzo e Molise

1970

No artwork available
NR

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L'Italia vista dal cielo: Lombardia

1973

No artwork available
NR

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L'Italia vista dal cielo: Puglia

1974

Oceano poster
10.0

The odyssey of a Tuamutu fisherman who sets out from his atoll-only coral island to procure fertile land in the "distant" archipelagos. Lost in the vast South Pacific, he finds the atoll from which he had departed now doomed from atomic experiments.

Oceano

1971

Oceano poster
10.0

The odyssey of a Tuamutu fisherman who sets out from his atoll-only coral island to procure fertile land in the "distant" archipelagos. Lost in the vast South Pacific, he finds the atoll from which he had departed now doomed from atomic experiments.

Oceano

1971

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

L'Italia vista dal cielo: Sardegna

1978

Animals in the Great War poster
6.4

In the First World War, alongside the men fought an army of animals. Mules, oxen, dogs, horses, pigs, pigeons were used for moving units and materials, communications, and for the support of the troops. The forced cohabitation with men closer to each other in a possible fate of death and suffering: officers and enlisted men had the opportunity to give and receive affection, but also to deal with beings weak and completely dependent on their . Animals in the Great War offers an unconventional story of dramatic conflict, through letters, diaries and photographs taken by the fighters, and collected in the book that Lucio Fabi has derived from his research, The good soldier mule (ed. MURSIA). A documentary rebuild memories, stories, episodes of real life relationship, in and out of the trench, between humans and animals, including incredible moments of absolute serenity and tenderness, alternating the background of one of the most tragic periods in modern history.

Animals in the Great War

2015

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

L'Italia vista dal cielo: Emilia Romagna e Marche

1968

No artwork available
NR

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L'Italia vista dal cielo: Umbria

1976

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NR

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L'Italia vista dal cielo: Campania

1971

No artwork available
NR

Marble from all parts of the Empire: yellow from Numidia, red from Peloponnese, pink alabasters from Algeria, blood red from Thebaid. A strictly scientific film, inspired by the art "Marmora Romana" by Raniero Gnoli, tells of the "hunters of marbles" yesterday and today in search of deposits sometimes more precious than gold, those of the "shining stone", that over the centuries, has been carved to enhanced the divine gift of emperors, to have portraits of splendid women, warriors, slaves, mythological beings and divinities. Powerful and stupendous works like those that made imperial Rome unique, with marbles from all over the empire

The Marble Empire

2004

No artwork available
NR

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L'Italia vista dal cielo: Piemonte e Valle D'Aosta

1974

No artwork available
NR

n the year 600 A.D., a wind swept across the Arabian Desert where, in a little town called Mecca, an illiterate orphan named Muhammad came to be the seal of the Prophets to whom the Word of God was revealed-and the world was changed forever. As did Adam, Abraham, Moses, and Jesus, Mohammad was sent as a mercy to mankind calling to the Oneness of God. This one man's message now claims over one billion people across the planet all testifying to the same basic principles. However, it is a faith more misunderstood than any other.

Islam: Faith and Nations

1983