Folco Quilici
Directing
Biography
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
After witnessing the killing of his mate and offspring at the hands of a reckless Irish captain, a vengeful killer whale rampages through the fisherman's Newfoundland harbor. Under pressure from the villagers, the captain, a female marine biologist, and an Indigenous tribalist venture after the great beast, who will meet them on its own turf.
Orca
The master Impallato takes care of the boys in a suburban after-school. Here he discovers a pupil with an extraordinary baritone voice.
Bravissimo
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L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
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
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
Four buddies set out on a three-week deep-sea fishing holiday in the Amazon and run into trouble.
Only One Survived
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
A young boy travels by himself to reach his sick mother.
Dagli Appennini alle Ande
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
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
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
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L'Italia vista dal cielo: Basilicata e Calabria
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L'Italia vista dal cielo: Sicilia
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L'Italia vista dal cielo: Liguria
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L'Italia vista dal cielo: Lazio
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L'Italia vista dal cielo: Sardegna
A team of doctors sets out through a steamy African jungle to check an outbreak of sleeping sickness.
Native Drums
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L'Italia vista dal cielo: Veneto e Venezia
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L'Italia vista dal cielo: Campania
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