Marcel Camus

Marcel Camus (21 April 1912 – 13 January 1982) was a French film director. He is best known for Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus), which won the Palme d'Or at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival and the 1960 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Camus was born in Chappes, Ardennes, France and died in Paris. He studied art and intended to become an art teacher. However, World War II interrupted his plans. He spent part of the war in a German prisoner-of-war camp. Prior to directing films, Camus assisted filmmakers in France, including Jacques Feyder, Luis Buñuel, and Jacques Becker. He directed nearly a dozen films, including Orfeu Negro (also known as Black Orpheus), which won the Palme d'Or at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival and the 1960 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1960, Camus made a second Brazlilian-themed film, Os bandeirantes. Twenty years after Orfeu Negro, Camus returned to Brazilian themes for what would prove to be his last film, Bahia (also known as Otalia da Bahia and Os pastores da noite), based on a novel by Brazilian novelist Jorge Amado. These films, however, failed to recapture the success of Orfeu Negro. In 1970, Camus had a moderate success with a World War II comedy, Le Mur de l'Atlantique (The Atlantic Wall), starring the well-known French comedian Bourvil. Camus ended his career working primarily in television. Camus married one of the stars of Orfeu Negro, Marpessa Dawn. Camus is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery. Source: Article "Marcel Camus" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Works

Madrid

Release Date:1983-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

My Friend Winnetou

My Friend Winnetou is a German television series.

Release Date:1980-05-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:14

Vote Count:2

Ce diable d'homme

Release Date:1978-05-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:6

Bahia

The adventures of Otalia, a strangely innocent young Brazilian prostitute who has just arrived in Salvador, Bahia. Though her belongings are stolen from her shortly after arrival, Otalia swiftly meets up with a group of charming and helpful friends.

Release Date:1976-09-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:3

Les Faucheurs de marguerites

Les Faucheurs de marguerites is a French-Canadian-German television series.

Release Date:1974-05-27

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Molière pour rire et pour pleurer

Release Date:1973-11-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:1

La Porteuse de pain

Release Date:1973-01-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:13

Vote Count:2

Atlantic Wall

1944. Léon Duchemin owns a restaurant with his sister. His clients are Germans, Résistance et black marketeers. Léon unwillingly joins the Résistance when a British pilot is shot down and hides in his attic and, through a series of mishaps, he accidentally steals the plans for Hitler's V1 missiles.

Release Date:1970-10-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:96

A Savage Summer

In Juan-les-Pins, Serge drops off a hitchhiker, Sylvie, who joins "Théo's gang", a group of students and workers, all young, all broke, improvising their vacations from day to day. Among them, Serge meets Helle, a discreet young girl with whom he quickly falls in love, but whom he can only win over once he's sorted out his many problems with the wrong people.

Release Date:1970-07-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Love in the Night

Bourgoin uses Philippe to attract customers from another establishment to the nightclub he wants to open in Pigalle.

Release Date:1968-06-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Song of the World

In Haute-Provence, two rival farming clans clash over the four seasons of the year. A young lumberjack, who has gone up to Rebeillard country to fell trees, has not been heard from for several months. Concerned by his long absence, his father sets out to find him. Antonio, known as "Bouche d'or" (Golden Mouth), the man from the river, accompanied him out of friendship; the two of them toiled together for long days, but one night, at the edge of the wood, they discovered a blond woman lying on the ground, giving birth to a child: it was Clara, a young blind woman.

Release Date:1965-10-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Bird of Paradise

A beautiful dancer has two admirers -- one is a young worker whom she has only met by accident, and the other is an unscrupulous businessman. The worker had been training as a Buddhist monk and as his interest in the dancer and the businessman's pursuit of the woman develop, the dancer and the former monk end up at the archaeological site of Angkor.

Release Date:1962-10-24

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

The Pioneers

In Brazil, a diamond prospector sets out in pursuit of a thief who has robbed him and left him for dead. Along the way, he meets one of his adversary's former mistresses and tries to extract some information from her.

Release Date:1960-10-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Black Orpheus

Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hitman dressed like Death and Orfeu's vengeful fiancée Mira and passing between moments of fantasy and stark reality. This impressionistic retelling of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice introduced bossa nova to the world with its soundtrack by young Brazilian composers Luiz Bonfá and Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Release Date:1959-06-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Ernesto

Vote Count:210

Discorama

Release Date:1959-02-04

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Mort en fraude

In 1950 Saigon Paul Horcier, a young Frenchman is on the run for currency trafficking. A Eurasian woman he meets takes him to shelter in a village in No man's land between the French forces and the Viet Minh. He grows to have enormous empathy with the locals and their poor living conditions. He ultimately lays down his life on their behalf.

Release Date:1957-04-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:7

That Is the Dawn

A generous doctor is aghast that the population of a small island is being oppressed and mistreated, but is seemingly unable to do anything about it, until the arrival of a young woman and the death of one of his friends prompts him into action.

Release Date:1956-05-09

Department:Directing

Job:First Assistant Director

Vote Count:26

Cinépanorama

Release Date:1956-02-04

Character:Self

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:2

Bad Liaisons

Catherine Racan, a young journalist who always puts her career over her love life, is brought in by the police for questioning. They are looking for a doctor who illegally performs abortions and now they are interrogating all of his previous clients.

Release Date:1955-10-25

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director

Vote Count:10

The Cheerful Squadron

The Cheerful Squadron is a 1954 Italian war-comedy film directed by Paolo Moffa and Interpreted by movie stars like Paolo Stoppa, Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Sordi and Silvana Pampanini. Based on the military environment novel The Allegro Squadron by Georges Courteline (1886), this film presents a series of sketches on military life in the late nineteenth century.

Release Date:1954-12-05

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:6

Strange Desire of Mr. Bard

A terminally ill Mr. Bard, a casino bus driver forced to quit his job, miraculously wins a fortune playing roulette. Instantly becoming a millionaire, he wants to fulfill his life's dream: to become a father. This plan is opposed by his greedy relatives who would go any low to take this money away from him. They are being led by a small-time crook. Mr. Bard's natural shyness and good heart lead him to the journey of self-exploration and finding his true love.

Release Date:1954-01-04

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director

Vote Count:10

Les Dents longues

A young, talented and ambitious journalist, Louis heads off to try his luck in Paris. He's spotted by Walter, editor-in-chief for a major daily newspaper, who takes to him and furthers his career. What he doesn't realise is that Louis is ready to betray anyone to achieve his ends...

Release Date:1953-03-15

Department:Writing

Job:Adaptation

Vote Count:6

La demoiselle et son revenant

Rosette is young and charming but she is crippled so she cannot make the most of her life. Which upsets Jules Petitpas, a single inventor, her eccentric but kind-hearted neighbor. Jules pledges to help her by creating a potion that will cure her. Unfortunately he dies before being able to achieve his aim. But a promise is a promise, and the good man comes back to the land of the living as an ... ectoplasm! And he manages to involve a whole tribe of ghosts to assist him in the noble task of saving the young lady. All is well that ends well.

Release Date:1952-09-03

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director

Casque d'Or

At the end of the 19th century, during a ball in Joinville, on the outskirts of Paris, Georges, a former delinquent working as a carpenter, meets Marie, a young woman connected to a criminal gang.

Release Date:1952-03-13

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director

Vote Count:183

Antoine & Antoinette

1947, in France, Antoine and Antoinette, a young couple living in Paris, lead a monotonous existence: he works in a print shop while she is a shop assistant. But one evening, they regain hope: Antoine finds a winning lottery ticket in his girlfriend's handbag. He decides to cash it in, but loses his wallet. What follows is a series of twists and turns that redefine the couple's priorities while forcing them to remain optimistic.

Release Date:1947-09-27

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director

Vote Count:36