Biography
Camus started studying Law, but soon left his studies to enter the IIEC (now EOC) in 1956, where he got a director's diploma in 1963 with the training film El borracho (1962) and, finally, ended up as a professor. He worked with Carlos Saura in several screenplays during the early 60s (The Delinquents (1960), Llanto por un bandido (1964)), and also directed some shorts. His first feature films were Los farsantes (1963) and Young Sánchez (1964), a film about boxing -one of his passions- which won the Best Film Award at the Buenos Aires Film Festival in 1964. This way he started a three decade filmography full of great works, varying from romantic comedies and musicals to splendid adaptations from famous novels, as is the case of the prestigious TV series Fortunata y Jacinta (1980) or the film La colmena (1982), which won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival. In 1983 he was given the 'Medalla de Oro de las Bellas Artes' (Arts Gold Medal), and one year later he prepared his most successful work both with public and critic: The Holy Innocents (1984), an adaptation from the novel by Miguel Delibes. This film won the Best Actor Award for Francisco Rabal and Alfredo Landa (ex- aequo) at the Cannes Film Festival. It also won the 'Premio Nacional de Cinematografía' (National Cinematography Award) in 1985 and the 'Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts des Lettres' Award in 1986.
Camus's filmography combines films made with others with a more personal style, where he tells stories closer to him that let him go through less worn themes. That is the case of Con el viento solano (1966), Los pájaros de Baden-Baden (1975) or Los días del pasado (1977).
In the 90s he continued working with great actors and telling dramatic stories made up from complex characters living rebel or broken lives, or entering other genres like noir. Examples of this stage are La rusa (1987), Después del sueño (1992), Sombras en una batalla (1993) and Adosados (1996), a film which won the International Critic Award.
He was married to Concha Bergareche from 1961 - 2016, date of her death. They had 7 children.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Miguel Ángel Díaz González
Filmography
all 56
Movies 50
Director 38
Writer 12
TV Shows 6
self 4
Screenplay 1
Creator 1
Mario Camus según el cine (2022)
Mañana podría estar muerto (2012)
El prado de las estrellas (2007)
Roma (2004)
Portrait of Carlos Saura (2004)
De Salamanca a ninguna parte (2002)
La playa de los galgos (2002)
City of Wonders (1999)
El Coyote: Don César de Echagüe (1998)
La vuelta del Coyote (1998)
El Coyote: El tribunal del Coyote (1998)
The Color of the Clouds (1997)
Más allá del jardín (1996)
Suburbs (1996)
Self Esteem (1994)
Shadows in a Conflict (1993)
The Bird of Happiness (1993)
After the Dream (1992)
Prince of Shadows (1991)
La Femme et le Pantin (1990)
La Forja de un Rebelde (1990)
Gallego (1988)
Lorca: Death of a Poet (1987)
La rusa (1987)
The House of Bernarda Alba (1987)
Werther (1986)
Marbella (1985)
La vieja música (1985)
Bohemian Nights (1985)
The Holy Innocents (1984)
Crooks (1983)
Los Desastres de la Guerra (1983)
The Beehive (1982)
Fortunata and Jacinta (1980)
Los días del pasado (1977)
Curro Jiménez (1976)
La joven casada (1975)
The Birds of Baden-Baden (1975)
Los camioneros (1973)
La leyenda del alcalde de Zalamea (1973)
Canticle (1972)
Wrath of the Wind (1970)
Esa mujer (1969)
Let Them Talk (1968)
Volver a vivir (1968)
Al ponerse el sol (1967)
With the East Wind (1967)
When You Are Not Here (1966)
La visita que no tocó el timbre (1965)
Weeping for a Bandit (1964)
Young Sánchez (1964)
Muere una mujer (1964)
La Suerte (1963)
Los farsantes (1963)
The Drunkard (1962)
The Delinquents (1960)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1935-04-20
Deathday2021-09-18 (86 years old)
Birth PlaceSantander, Spain
CitizenshipsSpain
AwardsCírculo de Escritores Cinematográficos, Golden Bear
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