Mario Camus

Directing

Mario Camus

Born — Died

1935-04-19 — 2021-09-18

Place of birth

Santander, Cantabria, España

Known for

Directing

Credits

43 titles

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 …

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

Wrath of the Wind poster
5.2

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

Wrath of the Wind

1970

Prince of Shadows poster
5.2

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

Prince of Shadows

1991

Suburbs poster
4.8

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 .

Suburbs

1996

La Femme et le Pantin poster
4.2

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.

La Femme et le Pantin

1990

La vuelta del Coyote poster
7.0

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.

La vuelta del Coyote

1998

La vuelta del Coyote poster
7.0

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.

La vuelta del Coyote

1998

The Holy Innocents poster
7.8

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.

The Holy Innocents

1984

The Holy Innocents poster
7.8

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.

The Holy Innocents

1984

Roma poster
6.5

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.

Roma

2004

No artwork available
8.0

A short film by Mario Camus.

La suerte

1963

No artwork available
8.0

A short film by Mario Camus.

La suerte

1963

La visita que no tocó el timbre poster
7.0

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.

La visita que no tocó el timbre

1966

La visita que no tocó el timbre poster
7.0

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.

La visita que no tocó el timbre

1966

The House of Bernarda Alba poster
7.0

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.

The House of Bernarda Alba

1987

The House of Bernarda Alba poster
7.0

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.

The House of Bernarda Alba

1987

Let Them Talk poster
7.0

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

Let Them Talk

1968

Más allá del jardín poster
5.0

Palmira, a woman belonging to the Sevillian aristocracy, as well known for her decrepitude and hypocrisy as the rest of her population, enters into an emotional crisis when she reaches maturity.

Más allá del jardín

1996

Los farsantes poster
6.6

No synopsis available yet.

Los farsantes

1963

Los farsantes poster
6.6

No synopsis available yet.

Los farsantes

1963

La joven casada poster
3.9

A young couple reviews the year they have lived together. According to him, this time has been positive. But she thinks that Jorge was carried away by his father, betraying the plans they had made together before marrying, although she believes that there is still some way to save the situation. That is why she escapes from home, thinking that her husband will go after her and that everything will start again. But a new person enters her life and the situation gets complicated.

La joven casada

1975

La rusa poster
6.3

A man falls in love with a terrorist.

La rusa

1987

No artwork available
NR

A family of three (father, mother, and son) prepares to welcome a friend.

La visita

1961

No artwork available
NR

A family of three (father, mother, and son) prepares to welcome a friend.

La visita

1961

The Beehive poster
6.4

As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, surviving close to misery under the Franco's regime, and the winners of the war, the emerging class of the people that makes easy money with illegal business.

The Beehive

1982

Los días del pasado poster
6.5

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.

Los días del pasado

1977

Los días del pasado poster
6.5

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.

Los días del pasado

1977

Canticle poster
4.5

While conducting interviews with women working in local brothels, Fernando, a journalist, meets Elisa. The woman will tell him her dramatic story, which begins at age 14 when she is raped by her godfather.

Canticle

1972

Werther poster
7.3

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.

Werther

1986

Shadows in a Conflict poster
5.4

Ana, a former member of the Basque terrorist group ETA who lives in a small village near the Portuguese border working as a veterinarian and sharing her days with her partner Darío and their daughter Amalia, meets José, an attractive man who participated in the dirty anti-terrorist war against ETA criminals who took refuge in France.

Shadows in a Conflict

1993

Shadows in a Conflict poster
5.4

Ana, a former member of the Basque terrorist group ETA who lives in a small village near the Portuguese border working as a veterinarian and sharing her days with her partner Darío and their daughter Amalia, meets José, an attractive man who participated in the dirty anti-terrorist war against ETA criminals who took refuge in France.

Shadows in a Conflict

1993

Volver a vivir poster
9.0

A former soccer player is morally and mentally destroied by the death of his wife. But when he gets the chance to train a team he regains his life by making victories and also finding another love.

Volver a vivir

1968

Volver a vivir poster
9.0

A former soccer player is morally and mentally destroied by the death of his wife. But when he gets the chance to train a team he regains his life by making victories and also finding another love.

Volver a vivir

1968

The Color of the Clouds poster
6.3

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.

The Color of the Clouds

1997

The Color of the Clouds poster
6.3

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.

The Color of the Clouds

1997

The Delinquents poster
6.4

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.

The Delinquents

1960

City of Wonders poster
4.9

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.

City of Wonders

1999

City of Wonders poster
4.9

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.

City of Wonders

1999

With the East Wind poster
6.1

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.

With the East Wind

1967

With the East Wind poster
6.1

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.

With the East Wind

1967

No artwork available
6.0

It's summer and Madrid is almost deserted. Elisa, a young bourgeois woman who is preparing her doctoral thesis, needs the services of a photographer to illustrate her work. She hires Pablo, a somewhat bohemian, strange, and solitary man who lives with his son. Despite an initial misunderstanding, they are mutually attracted to each other; thus begins a relationship that for her is nothing more than a summer romance, while for him it could be a story of love and salvation.

The Birds of Baden-Baden

1975