Mario Camus

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Mario Camus García (born April 20, 1935 in Santander , Cantabria , † September 18, 2021 there ) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter .

biography

He dropped out of law school in 1956 to study film. He completed his film studies in 1963. His diploma thesis was the short film El Borracho. In the 1960s he wrote screenplays for the films The Street Boys and Cordoba , which were directed by Carlos Saura , and directed several short films himself.

His first feature films were the drama Los Farsantes and Young Sánchez about the life of a boxer. Both were created in 1963. Young Sánchez earned him his first awards, including a prize at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata . In the following years he did not stay true to any particular genre, but created both romantic comedies and musicals as well as literary adaptations. He received the Golden Bear at the 1983 Berlinale for The Beehive , a social drama based on the novel by Camilo José Cela starring Victoria Abril . He was also nominated four times for the Goya and for his film Los santos inocentes at the Cannes International Film Festival . He won the Goya for the screenplay for Sombras en una batalla (1993). Wild Dog Beach from 2002 is about a simple baker who goes in search of his brother, a terrorist who has gone into hiding.

Mario Camus, along with Carlos Saura, Basilio Martín Patino , José Luis Borau , Julio Diamante , Miguel Picazo and Manolo Summers , is counted among the pioneers of the “New Spanish Cinema” (Nuevo Cine Español) .

Filmography

Director:

  • 1962: El Borracho (short film)
  • 1963: La Suerte (short film)
  • 1963: Passion of the Comedians (Los Farsantes)
  • 1964: Young Sánchez
  • 1965: La visita que no tocó el timbre
  • 1965: Muere una mujer
  • 1966: Con el viento solano
  • 1966: Cuando tú no estás
  • 1967: Soledad
  • 1967: Al ponerse el sol
  • 1968–1976: Cuentos y leyendas (TV series)
  • 1968: Volver a vivir
  • 1968: Digan lo que digan
  • 1969: Esa mujer
  • 1970: The devil knows no Hallelujah (La collera del vento)
  • 1972–1973: Si las piedras hablaran (TV series)
  • 1973: La leyenda del alcalde de Zalamea
  • 1975: Los Pájaros de Baden-Baden
  • 1975: The newlyweds (La joven casada)
  • 1976–1977: Paisajes con figuras (TV series)
  • 1976: Curro Jiménez: The Andalusian Rebel (Curro Jiménez) (TV series)
  • 1978: Los días del pasado
  • 1980: Fortunata y Jacinta (TV series)
  • 1982: The beehive (La Colmena)
  • 1983: Los desastres de la guerra (TV series)
  • 1984: The holy fools (Los santos inocentes)
  • 1985: La vieja música
  • 1987: Bernarda Alba's house (La Casa de Bernarda Alba)
  • 1987: The Execution (La Rusa)
  • 1990: A Rebel Is Forged (La forja de un rebelde) (TV series)
  • 1990: La femme et le pantin
  • 1992: Después del sueño
  • 1993: Sombras en una batalla
  • 1994: Amor propio
  • 1996: Adosados
  • 1997: El color de las nubes
  • 1997: La vuelta de El Coyote
  • 1999: La ciudad de los prodigios
  • 2002: The Greyhound Beach (La playa de los galgos)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The director of Mario Camus a los 86 years. In: El País . September 18, 2021, accessed September 18, 2021 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Camus, Mario
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Camus García, Mario Luis (full name)
SHORT DESCRIPTION Spanish film director and screenwriter
BIRTH DATE April 20, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Santander , Cantabria , Spain
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Santander , Cantabria , Spain