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Marcel Camus (1912–1982)

Director | Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | Writer

The work of Marcel Camus is characterized by a lyricism which, although central to his fine films of the 1950s and 60s - Fugitive in Saigon(aka: FUGITIVE IN SAIGON), Black Orpheus(aka:BLACK ORPHEUS) and Love in the Night - later deteriorated into superficial sentimentality. Camus was a professor of painting and sculpture before breaking into film as an assistant to Alexandre Astruc... See full bio »

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in Chappes, Ardennes, France

Died:

(age 69) in Paris, France
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1983 Capitali culturali d'Europa (TV series documentary)
– Madrid (1983)
 
1982 Le féminin pluriel (TV movie)
 
1981 Le roman du samedi: L'agent secret (TV movie)
 
1980 Les amours du mal-aimé (TV movie)
 
1980 Winnetou le mescalero (TV series)
– Duels (1980)
– De sable et de sang (1980)
 
1979 Bahia
 
1979 Le roi qui vient du sud (TV mini-series)
 
1978 Ce diable d'homme (TV mini-series)
– Mourir à Paris (1978)
– Le supplicié de Toulouse (1978)
– Les orages de Prusse (1978)
– Émilie contre Frédéric (1978)
– Contrebandier de la liberté (1978)
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1974 Les faucheurs de marguerites (TV mini-series)
 
1973 Molière pour rire et pour pleurer (TV mini-series)
 
1973 La porteuse de pain (TV mini-series)
 
1970 Atlantic Wall
 
1970 A Savage Summer
 
1968 Love in the Night
 
1967 L'homme de New York
 
1965 Song of the World
 
1963 L'oiseau de paradis
 
1961 The Pioneers
 
1959 Black Orpheus
 
1957 Fugitive in Saigon
 
1956 That Is the Dawn (first assistant director)
 
1955 Bad Liaisons (assistant director)
 
1955 The Rapickers of Emmaus (assistant director)
 
1955 Interdit de séjour (assistant director)
 
1954 The Cheerful Squadron (assistant director)
 
1954 Beauty and the Bullfighter (assistant director)
 
1953 The Most Wanted Man (assistant director)
 
1952 Crimson Curtain (assistant director)
 
1952 La demoiselle et son revenant (assistant director)
 
1952 Casque d'Or (assistant director)
 
1951 Edward and Caroline (first assistant director)
 
1949 Rendezvous in July (assistant director)
 
1947 Antoine et Antoinette (assistant director)
 
Show ShowWriter (11 titles)
1979 Bahia (writer)
 
1972 Amazônia (documentary) (story)
 
1970 Atlantic Wall (dialogue)
 
1970 A Savage Summer
 
1965 Song of the World
 
1963 L'oiseau de paradis (writer)
 
1961 The Pioneers
 
1959 Black Orpheus (writer)
 
1957 Fugitive in Saigon
 
1955 The Long Teeth
 
1954 The Cheerful Squadron (screenplay)
 
Show ShowMiscellaneous Crew (2 titles)
1955 The Long Teeth (technical advisor)
 
1954 Strange Desire of Mr. Bard (technical advisor)
 
Show ShowActor (1 title)
1959 Black Orpheus
Ernesto
 
Show ShowSelf (2 titles)
1974 Histoire du cinéma français par ceux qui l'ont fait (TV series documentary)
Himself
 
1959-1965 Cinépanorama (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Episode dated 27 March 1965 (1965) … Himself
– Episode dated 15 May 1959 (1959) … Himself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (1 title)
1993 François Truffaut: Portraits volés (documentary)
Himself
 

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Black Orpheus -- Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the twentieth-century madness of Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro.
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