English (en-US)

Name

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- 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

Spanish; Castilian (es-ES)

Name
Biography

Director de cine y guionista español, conocido por sus eficaces adaptaciones de obras de la literatura española, como La colmena y Los santos inocentes. Nació en Santander y abandonó los estudios de derecho para ingresar en la Escuela Oficial de Cinematografía. Tras diplomarse con la práctica El borracho (1963), debutó como director ese mismo año con el largometraje de temática social Los farsantes. En esa época también realizó películas de encargo, musicales —como Digan lo que digan (1968, con el cantante español Raphael) y Esa mujer (1969, con Sara Montiel)— e incluso dirigió un spaghetti western, La cólera del viento (1970). Su estilo no se definió hasta Fortunata y Jacinta (1979), sobre la obra de Benito Pérez Galdós, una interesante serie de televisión que supuso su consagración como adaptador de textos literarios. Dentro de este campo realizó con gran éxito La colmena (1982), basada en la obra de Camilo José Cela, Oso de Oro en el Festival de Berlín; Los santos inocentes (1984), sobre la novela de Miguel Delibes, por la que el actor Alfredo Landa fue premiado en el Festival de Cannes; y La casa de Bernarda Alba (1987), adaptación de la obra de teatro de Federico García Lorca. En otras producciones su enfoque social ha adoptado un tono más intimista, como en Sombras de una batalla (1993), protagonizada por Carmen Maura, o Adosados (1996). Otras películas de su filmografía son Los pájaros de Baden-Baden (1975), Amor propio (1994), El color de las nubes (1997) y La playa de los galgos

You need to be logged in to continue. Click here to login or here to sign up.

Can't find a movie or TV show? Login to create it.

Global

s focus the search bar
p open profile menu
esc close an open window
? open keyboard shortcut window

On media pages

b go back (or to parent when applicable)
e go to edit page

On TV season pages

(right arrow) go to next season
(left arrow) go to previous season

On TV episode pages

(right arrow) go to next episode
(left arrow) go to previous episode

On all image pages

a open add image window

On all edit pages

t open translation selector
ctrl+ s submit form

On discussion pages

n create new discussion
w toggle watching status
p toggle public/private
c toggle close/open
a open activity
r reply to discussion
l go to last reply
ctrl+ enter submit your message
(right arrow) next page
(left arrow) previous page

Settings

Want to rate or add this item to a list?

Login