Folco Quilici (9 April 1930 – 24 February 2018)
was an Italian
film director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, ...
and
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
...
.
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
The Berlin International Film Festival (german: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale (), is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the fest ...
in the documentary category at the
7th Berlin International Film Festival.
Death
Quilici died in
Orvieto, Italy of a
stroke on 24 February 2018 at the age of 87.
''The Outdoor Journal''. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
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1930 births
2018 deaths
Italian film directors
20th-century Italian screenwriters
Italian male screenwriters
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia alumni
Underwater photographers
People from Ferrara
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