Last Updated on: 28th June 2023, 09:07 pm
Spanish Film Director Mario Camus Dies At 86
Spanish director Mario Camus, whose film about the consequences of the Spanish civil war won first prize at the Berlin Film Festival in 1936/39, died this Saturday.
He was 86 years old.
“The filmmaker Mario Camus died in Santander,” said the Spanish Academy of Cinematography in a post on social media.
Camus, whose best films were inspired by great literary works, first gained international attention when his film about the aftermath of the Spanish civil war “La Colmena” won the Golden Bear at the 1983 Berlin Film Festival.
The following year, “The Holy Innocents” received a Special Mention from the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival, and its two stars jointly won the Best Actor Award.
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Tributes
In 2011 he won the Goya Prize, the Spanish equivalent of an Oscar.
Camus’s death came the day after the death of 95-year-old Spanish playwright Alfonso Sastre, a vocal critic of censorship during the decades of the Spanish dictatorship. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez paid tribute to the two on Twitter on Saturday.
“Those of us who love cinema and theater cry today. We say goodbye to two greats of culture, Alfonso Sastre and Mario Camus. From our seats in the audience we will continue to enjoy his extraordinary works,” he wrote.
“My condolences to his family and friends and the world of culture.”
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