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Filmmaker · Spain

Mario Camus

Died in 2021

Mario Camus was born in Santander in 1935. He studied law, then entered the Official Film School and belonged to the generation of the New Spanish Cinema. In the sixties, he made commercial films serving successful singers, then made a speciality of adapting the great writers of his country, for the cinema as well as for television, for which he also directed popular series. He received the Golden Bear in Berlin in 1983 and the Honorary Goya in 2011. He died in Santander in 2021.

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