Born in Santander in 1935 and dying in 2021, Mario Camus studied at the Madrid film school and made his career in Spanish cinema under and after Franco. La colmena (The Beehive, 1982), a mosaic of postwar Madrid life based on Camilo José Cela's novel, won the Golden Bear in Berlin. Los santos inocentes (The Holy Innocents, 1984), based on Miguel Delibes, is about a family of servants on a landowner's estate in Extremadura, and won the best actor prize at Cannes for both Alfredo Landa and Francisco Rabal.
Filmography
- The Beehive (1982)
- The Holy Innocents (1984)