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Marcel Camus
Director 1912 - 1982

Marcel Camus

Chappes, Ardennes, France

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, in the Ardennes... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

4 titles
Le mur de l'Atlantique

Le mur de l'Atlantique

Marcel Camus 1970 1h 47m 5.7

1944. Léon Duchemin tient un restaurant avec sa sœur. Ses clients sont allemands, résistants et trafiquants. Le pauvre devient malgré lui résistant quand un pilote de la R.A.F. abattu trouve refuge chez lui et quand il dérobe aux services d'Hitler les plans de ses missiles V1.

Vivre la nuit

Vivre la nuit

Marcel Camus 1968 1h 35m

French youth drama.

Orfeu Negro

Orfeu Negro

Marcel Camus 1959 1h 40m 8.5

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.

Mort en fraude

Mort en fraude

Marcel Camus 1957 1h 45m

Agreeing to smuggle a package into Saigon, apolitical Frenchman Horcier (Daniel Gelin) is waylaid and robbed by smugglers. After being left in the middle of this Southeast Asian French colony he casts his lots with the insurrectionists.

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