Camus is a Spanish director and screenwriter. He studied law for a short period of time and gave it up to study film. In 1962, he graduated with the short film El borracho. In early 1960s he co-wrote several screenplays with Carlos Saura and directed his own short films. In 1963, he made his directing debut with Los farsantes (1963), followed by Young Sánchez (1964). He is most famous for his films The Beehive (La colmena, 1982) that won the Golden Bear in Berlin in 1983 and The Holy Innocents (Los santos inocentes, 1984) that won the special jury’s award in Cannes in 1984. His other films are With the East Wind (Con el viento solano, 1966), Revenge of Trinity (La collera del vento, 1970), The Days of the Past (Los días del pasado, 1978), The House of Bernarda Alba (La casa de Bernarda Alba, 1987), Shadows in a Conflict (Sombras en una batalla, 1993), Suburbs (Adosados, 1996), The Color of the Clouds (El color de las nubes, 1999).