Directing

Mario Camus

Born April 19, 1935 · Santander, Cantabria, España

Died September 18, 2021 · aged 86

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 wer…

Known For

Wrath of the Wind

Wrath of the Wind · 1970

Wrath of the Wind

A mute gunslinger takes on an oppressive landlord in 19th century Valencia and falls in love with a local woman.

The Holy Innocents

The Holy Innocents · 1984

The Holy Innocents

In 60s Extremadura, Paco el Bajo and his relatives work during day in a farmhouse, and silently suffer submission to their masters, who exploit them and treat them almost like animals. Meanwhile, Paco dreams that one day his children will be able to study.

Los farsantes

Los farsantes · 1963

Prince of Shadows

Prince of Shadows · 1991

Prince of Shadows

MovieThrillerCrime

Madrid, 1962. More than twenty years after the civil war has finished, a communist comes back to Spain to kill a traitor.

Weeping for a Bandit

Weeping for a Bandit · 1964

Weeping for a Bandit

MovieHistoryDrama

José María "El Tempranillo" fleeing from justice, takes refuge in Sierra Morena. After a period of hard learning, he becomes the leader of a group of bandits.

La visita que no tocó el timbre

La visita que no tocó el timbre · 1966

La visita que no tocó el timbre

Two unmarried siblings live together without problems until the day a friend leaves her baby in their apartment because she does not have time to take care of him.

The Color of the Clouds

The Color of the Clouds · 1997

The Color of the Clouds

MovieDramaComedy

Clementina befriends Lola’s nerdy lawyer, Valerio, and slowly a romance develops between them. Meanwhile, old fisherman and model-maker Colo has found a consignment of drugs floating in the sea and tries to get rid of them to raise money to save Lola’s house. The adventure element of pic is in a smuggling gang’s attempt to recover the drugs.

La rusa

La rusa · 1987

MovieDramaThriller

A man falls in love with a terrorist.

Filmography

Sort

Wrath of the Wind

Wrath of the Wind · 1970

Wrath of the Wind

A mute gunslinger takes on an oppressive landlord in 19th century Valencia and falls in love with a local woman.

Director

The Holy Innocents

The Holy Innocents · 1984

The Holy Innocents

In 60s Extremadura, Paco el Bajo and his relatives work during day in a farmhouse, and silently suffer submission to their masters, who exploit them and treat them almost like animals. Meanwhile, Paco dreams that one day his children will be able to study.

Writer

Los farsantes

Los farsantes · 1963

Director

Prince of Shadows

Prince of Shadows · 1991

Prince of Shadows

MovieThrillerCrime

Madrid, 1962. More than twenty years after the civil war has finished, a communist comes back to Spain to kill a traitor.

Writer

Weeping for a Bandit

Weeping for a Bandit · 1964

Weeping for a Bandit

MovieHistoryDrama

José María "El Tempranillo" fleeing from justice, takes refuge in Sierra Morena. After a period of hard learning, he becomes the leader of a group of bandits.

Writer

La visita que no tocó el timbre

La visita que no tocó el timbre · 1966

La visita que no tocó el timbre

Two unmarried siblings live together without problems until the day a friend leaves her baby in their apartment because she does not have time to take care of him.

Director

The Color of the Clouds

The Color of the Clouds · 1997

The Color of the Clouds

MovieDramaComedy

Clementina befriends Lola’s nerdy lawyer, Valerio, and slowly a romance develops between them. Meanwhile, old fisherman and model-maker Colo has found a consignment of drugs floating in the sea and tries to get rid of them to raise money to save Lola’s house. The adventure element of pic is in a smuggling gang’s attempt to recover the drugs.

Director

La rusa

La rusa · 1987

MovieDramaThriller

A man falls in love with a terrorist.

Director

La vuelta del Coyote

La vuelta del Coyote · 1998

La vuelta del Coyote

MovieDramaWestern

In the mid-19th century, California, a Mexican territory, became part of the United States. Faced with the possibility of being dispossessed of his land by the new authorities, Don César de Echagüe, a Spanish nobleman, asks his son César, a capricious and insufferable fop, for help.

Director

The House of Bernarda Alba

The House of Bernarda Alba · 1987

The House of Bernarda Alba

After the death of her husband Bernarda Alba puts her daughters under a rigurous mourning which does not even allow them to leave the house.

Director

El prado de las estrellas

El prado de las estrellas · 2008

El prado de las estrellas

“The Meadow of Stars” refers to Alfonso's childhood memories. Fifty years later, he lives as a retiree in the home he has always known, in a large town nestled between a stormy sea and the mountain range.

Director

La vieja música

La vieja música · 1985

La vieja música

The new coach of the basketball team of Lugo arrives from Uruguay. He really knows nothing about training a basketball team so he keeps the previous coach on and in the meantime tries to learn from videos and books, but his real reason for coming to Spain was to find out about an old lost love.

Director

The Delinquents

The Delinquents · 1960

The Delinquents

A group of friends who are struggling to survive in the slums of Madrid commit petty crime in order to finance the debut as a bullfighter of one of them.

Screenplay

Los días del pasado

Los días del pasado · 1977

Los días del pasado

A woman arrives in town to work as a teacher. It is the time of the 'maquis', the anti-Franco guerrilla that fights with little hope in some regions of Spain just after the end of the civil war. She has a love affair with one of the guerrillas, but their relationship will have an impossible future because of the past.

Director

Werther

Werther · 1986

MovieDramaRomance

This adaptation of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther offers a chilly and remote view of love and its passions. The setting is changed to Spain, and Werther (Eusebio Poncela) has taken a job tutoring the son of an estranged husband and wife. The boy's mother is a surgeon and therefore a rather uncommon woman for her society. She and Werther gradually become romantically involved, and his feelings for her begin to run much deeper than is apparent on the surface.

Screenplay

When You Are Not Here

When You Are Not Here · 1966

When You Are Not Here

MovieComedyDrama

The film is slightly autobiographical, Raphael is trying to find fame and fortune as a popular singer in Spain until he teams up with an up and coming Spanish composer which helps him become a popular singer in Spain.

Director

Let Them Talk

Let Them Talk · 1968

MovieDramaComedy

Raphael plays a singer who searches for his classical pianist brother in Buenos Aires, with the brother eventually revealed playing in the squalid bar.

Director

Suburbs

Suburbs · 1996

A young auditor live peacefully in a residential block consisting of identical townhouses. However, a purely casual visit to the veterinarian on duty with his dog, causes a chain of lies under which the auditor notices the hidden face of all his daily life, starting with the true meaning of the silence of his wife .

Director

El Coyote: Don César de Echagüe

El Coyote: Don César de Echagüe · 1998

El Coyote: Don César de Echagüe

MovieActionAdventure

Writer

La Femme et le Pantin

La Femme et le Pantin · 1990

La Femme et le Pantin

MovieComedyDrama

Matthieu, a mature and wealthy French businessman, meets Estrella in Barcelona, a teenager with a humble family, who is subjugated by his youth, spontaneity, candor and mischief.

Director

Roma

MovieDramaHistory

Joaquín Góñez, a novelist in his sixties recalls his emotions, his wild years in Buenos Aires, the memories of old friends, the meaning of loyalty and the intimate relationship with his mother, Roma.

Screenplay

Al ponerse el sol

Al ponerse el sol · 1967

Al ponerse el sol

MovieDramaComedy

A famous singer and actor is at the peak of his career but fatigue, stress and harassment of the media makes feel unbalanced. His star began to fall rapidly and so goes into a clinic to cure his pain. Coming out, away from his audience, will spend some time at a house that is in the North, to the seashore. There he feels haunted by the story of characters who have lived in a nearby house, in one of which identifies his former secretary.

Director

City of Wonders

City of Wonders · 1999

City of Wonders

MovieDramaRomance

A young man, Onofre Bouvila, arrives in Barcelona escaping the troubles of his family. Knowing no one, his only objective is to build a new life. But Barcelona is a city run by warlords and mafias. And it doesn't take Onofre long to understand that in order to move forward has to adapt to the prevailing order of things: only power and money have value. The rest doesn't matter. His ambition is endangers his only love, Delifina.

Director

With the East Wind

With the East Wind · 1967

With the East Wind

MovieActionDrama

The life of Sebastián, a 28-year-old Roma, changes drastically after he kills a man. From that moment, he must flee, experiencing the torments of loneliness, guilt, and the rejection of his people.

Director

Curro Jiménez

Curro Jiménez · 1976

SeriesAction & AdventureComedy

Curro Jiménez was a successful Spanish TV series that aired on TVE1 from 22 December 1976 to 1979. Its main theme was Andalusian "bandolerismo" in the 19th century, located in the Ronda mountains. The main characters were four bandits, Curro Jiménez

Director

Fortunata and Jacinta

Fortunata and Jacinta · 1980

Fortunata and Jacinta

The aristocrat Juan de Santa Cruz meets Fortunata, a girl of humble origins, and a passionate love arises between them; but his mother decides to marry him to her niece Jacinta.

Screenplay

Lorca: Death of a Poet

Lorca: Death of a Poet · 1987

Lorca: Death of a Poet

Lorca, a great Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27. He was executed by Nationalist forces at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Nickolas Grace gives a fabulous interpretation in the title role and he even bears a remarkable resemblance to Lorca.

Writer

Los camioneros

Los camioneros · 1973

SeriesComedyDrama

Director

Los desastres de la guerra

Los desastres de la guerra · 1983

Los desastres de la guerra

SeriesDramaWar & Politics

The painter Francisco de Goya is witness to the disasters and horrors caused by the bloody resistance of the Spanish people to the French occupation during the Napoleonic wars.

Director

La Forja de un Rebelde

La Forja de un Rebelde · 1990

La Forja de un Rebelde

SeriesDramaWar & Politics

An autobiographical account that is also the history of Spain during the dark years of the first half of the twentieth century. Spanish writer Arturo Barea (1897-1957) narrates his childhood in Madrid, his harsh experiences in Morocco during the Rif War and his political commitment to the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War.

Writer