马里奥·卡穆斯
(1935)
Mario Camus
编剧
导演
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
(Los golfos (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:
Los santos inocentes (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.
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.
