Personal Info
Birth date
1941-02-15 (84 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Uruburetama, Ceará, Brazil
Also known as
Florinda Bulcao
Florinda Bolkan
Biography
Florinda Bolkan is a retired Brazilian actress and model. Bolkan acted with the Beatle Ringo Starr in her first film, "Candy". She worked in more than forty films, mainly in Italy. She was directed by Vittorio de Sica in Una Breve Vacanza. Under Elio Petri's direction, she made "Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion". Enrico Maria Salerno directed her in "Anonimo Veneziano". She worked with Jean-Louis Trintignant, John Cassavetes, and Annie Girardot.
Filmography
The Octopus
7.9
Overview:
An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. The mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, and anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price.Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
6
Overview:
This documentary examines the life and legacy of controversial Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci through interviews with his colleagues, each of whom answers the question, "What is your fondest memory of Lucio Fulci?". The responses are as varied as the people who knew the late writer-director, providing a nuanced look at the man behind such gory grindhouse classics as City of the Living Dead and The House by the Cemetery.The Trap
3.8
Overview:
A woman becomes obsessed with a man she can't have, and carries the torch for more than 15 years.Shadow of a Kiss
NYR
Overview:
Albert is a distinguished art dealer living in New York City. One day by chance, he visits a photo exhibit titled "Bistrot de Paris" by Carol Labronsky. In an old photo of two young lovers kissing while seated at a Bistro, Albert recognizes his first love, Rose, the girl he fell madly in love with during his stay in Paris in 1959, and had disappeared after leaving him. In that photograph Rose is wearing a sweater which Albert gave her, proof that the photo was taken after she had met him. Tormented by memories, AIbert feels a burning need to find out whet became of her.Candy
5.2
Overview:
A high school girl encounters a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations while searching for the meaning of life.Bad Inclination
2.5
Overview:
When a bloodthirsty serial killer begins murdering women with a carpenter’s set square, the story becomes a media sensation, inspiring kooks from all over the city to attempt to cash in on the publicity.A Brief Vacation
5.9
Overview:
Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, a downtrodden working woman contracts tuberculosis. She is granted a brief vacation at a health spa, where a whole new world — and potential new life — is opened up to her.Ombre
NYR
Overview:
Elena Serpieri is an Italian neurologist who is in the United States, because she obtained a scholarship in a New York hospital. There she works together with the FBI on the profile of a dangerous serial killer.The Shadow of the Pharaoh
NYR
Overview:
Under Pharaoh Amemphis III's reign, the most powerful in the kingdom, as vizier Burkis and a fanatic and xenophobic priest, will try to overthrow the Pharaoh. They will even murder the crown prince, Aker. But his twin brother will find a way to foil those fanatical plans.The Short Night
NYR
Overview:
After twenty-five years, lawyer Lara Degli Esposti finds the son she had abandoned at birth is the main suspect in a murder case.Love Circle
6.4
Overview:
A liberal-thinking author watches his wife as she attempts to seduce his best friend at a dinner party. She ends up taking on another man as well, and the writer has an affair with the another dinner guest. Soon the three men and two women are entangled in a confusing series of partner-swapping sex sprees where everyone's morals are challenged in the wake of the sexual revolution.The Right to Love
6
Overview:
The tragedy of Helene and her husband Pierre, whose life is shattered when Pierre is kept as a political prisoner, while Helene is denied the right to visit him. A growing fear of losing her husband to tuberculosis takes over Helene, who does all she can to meet him, even for one last time.Millions
3.5
Overview:
A pack of money-grabbing relatives try to take over his ailing uncle's industrial empire.Manaos
4.8
Overview:
At the beginning of this century some owners of rubber plantations in the Amazonas jungle convert a village into one big prison. But the inhabitants have other plans...What's This Country Called Now?
NYR
Overview:
A Bosnian woman, working as a reporter during the Siege of Sarajevo, interviews a living witness to the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand in 1914, and his wisdom gives her a deeper understanding of the Bosnian War, and her role in it.Crime Thief
5.2
Overview:
A man witnesses a suicide and starts imagining that it was a murder committed by himself.The Damned
7.29
Overview:
In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime.Crime of Passion
3.6
Overview:
Hungary: Callously leaving her handicapped daughter home alone, Sonya meets her lover at a hotel and is later shot to death. At her funeral, the main suspects are all present: Peter, Sonya's estranged husband; Tanya, her sister; and Julia, a business associate. The police inspector is assigned to the case discovers that Peter is sexually involved with both of the aforementioned women. Further murders ensue...If Only
6.333
Overview:
Alma, Jean and Sebastiano, the children of divorced parents, arrive in Rome from Paris on a visit to their father. During a holiday, the family’s tensions come to the surface.Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
8.2
Overview:
Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.The Word
5
Overview:
A document is discovered that appears to be an ancient eyewitness account of the life of Jesus Christ. A public relations executive is hired to publicize this document as a new version of the Bible, but he finds himself enmeshed in controversy and intrigue.The Master Touch
5.7
Overview:
A master thief, just out of prison, concocts a risky final score that would net him over a million dollars.Footprints on the Moon
6.233
Overview:
Alice, a young translator, finds the real world slowly merging with her recurring nightmares as she tries to solve the puzzle of her recent memory loss. A postcard leads her to the island of Garma where the locals seems to know her. Is she who she thinks she is? And what significance does her dream of an astronaut abandoned on the moon have?Royal Flash
5.9
Overview:
Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman's (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19th-century Europe go nowhere until he meets a pair of devious nobles with their own agenda. At their urging, Flashman agrees to re-create himself as a bogus Prussian nobleman to woo a beautiful duchess. But the half-baked plan quickly comes unraveled, and he's soon on the run from several new enemies who are all calling for the rapscallion's head.Don't Torture a Duckling
7.342
Overview:
A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town rife with superstition and a distrust of outsiders.Acting
2020What's This Country Called Now? as Archduchess Sophie
2020If Only as Olga
2010Who is Florinda Bolkan? as Carol Hammond (archive footage)
2008Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 as Self
2006The Short Night as Magistrato
2005Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker as Self
2005Shedding the Skin as Self
2003Bad Inclination as Mirta Valenti
2000I Didn't Know Tururu as Eleonora
2000A Kiss in the Dark as Aldina
1999Ombre as Kalantan
1998Bela Donna as Mãe Ana
1998Alice on the Run (3 Episodes) as Elisabetta Mancini
1996The Shadow of the Pharaoh as Unknown
1995Shadow of a Kiss as Mme Labronsky
1995Olga O's Strange Story as Sheila Altman
1994Crime of Passion as Giulia
1993The Evening Traveler as La baronne
1993Mission of Love (3 Episodes) as suor Helena
1993The Blonde in Black as Giovanna Bellocchi
1992Love at First Sight (1 Episode) as Samantha
1991Millions as Margherita
1990Der Erfolg ihres Lebens (4 Episodes) as Bianca di Falco
1989La trappola (2 Episodes) as Sandra
1989For Women Only as Unknown
1988Some Girls as Mrs. D'Arc
1988Prisoner of Rio as Stella
1987A Rainha da Vida (3 Episodes) as Antônia Fidalgo
1986Family Business (6 Episodes) as Lina Benetti
1985The Trap as Hélène
1984The Octopus (18 Episodes) as Olga Camastra
1983Soap and Water as Wilma
1983Bonded by Tender Friendship as Adelaide
1979Manaos as Manuela Aranda
1978The Word (4 Episodes) as Angela Monti
1978The Last House on the Beach as Sister Cristina
1978The Devil's Bed as Walpurga
1976A Common Sense of Modesty as Loredana Davoli
1975The Day That Shook the World as Sophie
1975Royal Flash as Lola Montez
1975Footprints on the Moon as Alice Campos / Alice Cespi
1974Flavia the Heretic as Flavia Gaetani
1974Love at the Top as Flora Danieli
1974The Virgin Sacrifice as Unknown
1973A Brief Vacation as Clara Mataro
1973Dear Parents as Giulia Bonanni
1972The Master Touch as Anna
1972Don't Torture a Duckling as Maciara
1972The Right to Love as Helena
1972Midi trente (1 Episode) as Self
1971Romance as Claudia Ridolfi
1971A Season in Hell as Gennet
1971V.I.P. Schaukel (1 Episode) as Self
1971A Lizard in a Woman's Skin as Carol Hammond
1971The Last Valley as Erica
1970Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion as Augusta Terzi
1970The Anonymous Venetian as Valeria
1970Black Lemons as Rossana Sciortino
1969The Damned as Olga
1969Detective Belli as Vera Fontana
1969Crime Thief as Florinda
1969Love Circle as Nina
1969Machine Gun McCain as Joni Adamo
1969A Rather Complicated Girl as Greta
1968Candy as Lolita
Directing
2000I Didn't Know Tururu ... Director
Writing
2000I Didn't Know Tururu ... Screenplay