Mario Camus

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…

Directed

1. The Holy Innocents (1984) — Director
2. The Beehive (1982) — Director
3. Wrath of the Wind (1970) — Director
4. The House of Bernarda Alba (1987) — Director
5. With the East Wind (1967) — Director
6. Curro Jiménez (1976) — Director
7. Shadows in a Conflict (1993) — Director
8. City of Wonders (1999) — Director
9. Self Esteem (1994) — Director
10. Esa mujer (1969) — Director
11. The Color of the Clouds (1997) — Director
12. Suburbs (1996) — Director
13. Los días del pasado (1977) — Director
14. The Birds of Baden-Baden (1975) — Director
15. La joven casada (1975) — Director
16. Fortunata and Jacinta (1980) — Director
17. El prado de las estrellas (2008) — Director
18. Young Sánchez (1964) — Director
19. Los farsantes (1963) — Director
20. La Forja de un Rebelde (1990) — Director
21. When You Are Not Here (1966) — Director
22. La visita que no tocó el timbre (1966) — Director
23. La Femme et le Pantin (1990) — Director
24. La vieja música (1985) — Director
25. After the Dream (1992) — Director
26. La rusa (1987) — Director
27. La playa de los galgos (2002) — Director
28. The Drunkard (1962) — Director
29. Let Them Talk (1968) — Director
30. Al ponerse el sol (1967) — Director
31. La vuelta del Coyote (1998) — Director
32. Muere una mujer (1964) — Director
33. La leyenda del alcalde de Zalamea (1973) — Director
34. Los desastres de la guerra (1983) — Director
35. Los camioneros (1973) — Director
36. El Coyote: El tribunal del Coyote (1998) — Director
37. El Coyote: Don César de Echagüe (1998) — Director
38. La suerte (1963) — Director
39. Volver a vivir (1968) — Director
40. Práctica de 2º curso (1959) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Mañana podría estar muerto (2012)
2. Paco, mi padre (1992)
3. Mario Camus según el cine (2022) — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)