
Hugo Sofovich
Directing
Biography
Hugo Alberto Sofovich (1939-2003) was an Argentine producer, director and librettist. He was the brother of Hugo Sofovich, and together they created multiple successful TV shows and movies before they split due to a fight. They reconciled decades later by the end of his life.
Known For

Rompeportones was an Argentinean humour show aired on Argentinean TV between 13th Mars and 25th December 1998 on Canal 13.
Rompeportones

In 1930s Argentina, dim-witted Rufino and Jacinto are hired as tough guys ("guapos") by political boss Malatesta to intimidate his opponents, rig elections, etc. However, the two men change allegiances when they meet the lovely Mercedes and La Mendocina, victims of Malatesta and his gang.
Las mujeres son cosa de guapos

A director of XXX films entrusts his assistant with the rental of a house for the filming with an international star. This, confused with the arrival of the star, preys the house to a friend to impress the groom
Un terceto peculiar

Two orderlies pretend to be surgeons to impress two young doctors and conquer, through several scenarios. Finally, they are discovered when they had to operate on a mafia boss to remove a bullet.
The Surgeons Use Their Hands

Alberto and Jorge are employees of a pharmacy. One day, by mistake, they give a client a bottle of poison in exchange for a medication that she had to start ingesting 48 hours later. Realizing this, they decide to go out and look for her with the only data they have: her first name, her striking clothing, and that she was driving an imported motorcycle. So they launch into a crazy race against time touring the fashionable places of the Buenos Aires night, helped by a woman who claims to know the mysterious girl on the motorcycle.
Expertos en pinchazos

A television network infiltrates an inept employee (Porcel) in the competition and he begins to ruin all the programs but, instead of subtracting audience, he only managed to improve it.
Te rompo el rating

A couple of art representatives, harassed by their debts with a mafia organization, invent an "uncle's story" to defraud a group of alleged heirs, posing as the testator's lawyers.
La herencia del Tío Pepe

Mauricio and Alberto are friends and work in an insurance company. Apparently they have very dissimilar personalities, since Alberto is a hummingbird who lives courting as many women as he can and Mauricio is serious and lover of his wife. In reality, Mauricio maintains a hidden relationship with a vedette named Monica, who constantly puts him in trouble when he asks him to separate from his wife and go live with her. Alberto, aware of this, proposes to Mauricio that he pass his lover to him, and Monica becomes his stable lover. Mauricio and Alberto's women become suspicious and everything gets complicated, and they come to the conclusion that keeping Monica is very dangerous for both of them.
Amante para dos

A sex congress takes place in a hotel, and couples are secretely filmed in a Slivers way by the "scientists".
El telo y la tele
Susana Giménez, often shortened to SG, is an Argentine television talk show that has run nationally since 1987. Owned and hosted by its namesake, Susana Giménez, it remains one of the highest-rated TV shows in Argentine television history. Due to the popularity of the show, Giménez is usually compared to Oprah Winfrey. The TV show is one of the most successful in Latin America. The TV show is the only one in Latin America to receive dozens of international stars of Hollywood and Europe. Inspired by Pronto, Rafaella, hosted by Rafaella Carrá, the show was originally called Hola Susana and then Hola Susana, te estamos llamando. It has combined interviews, sketch comedy, games and live musical performances. Giménez has received national and international stars in what is known as her "living". In 1998 the show entered Guinness World Records because of all the letters Giménez received in her show, 32 million in total. Furthermore, during the first years of the show, telephone lines collapsed. Susana Giménez is one of the longest-running television talk shows in Argentine history. The show has received 21 Martín Fierro Awards, including the Golden Martín Fierro and Platinum Martín Fierro.
Susana Giménez

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1000 Boomerangs

A recently separated man decides to go to his best friend's apartment, where their different personalities cause crazy events, hilarious situations and, in addition, he meets a beautiful woman with whom he falls in love.
Shared Apartment

Jorge is a photographer for a newspaper, from which he is fired. He then begins to work in a detective agency, where he is assigned the mission of protecting Monica, a beautiful woman threatened with death by an ex-boyfriend.
Custodio de señoras

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Un toque diferente

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La noche del hurto

Alberto, Jorge, Ricardo and Tristan are employees of a shoe store, all are married and share the friendship also between their wives. The 4 friends, faithful to the rogue style of Buenos Aires, go out of their way to have love affairs with the beautiful customers of the shoe store, and for that purpose one day they decide to rent, secretly, an apartment to use as a "bulín". The problems begin from then on, as everyone wants to be the first to release it and then, successively, take turns for their adventures. As is to be expected, it does not take long for the first entanglements to appear, while their wives seem to begin to suspect the adventures of these four typical Buenos Aires chantas.
The Knights of the Round Bed

A common man that is tired of being treated as stupid, and starts treating other people the same way, acting as a Brazilian "Manosanta" (folk healer that cures people illnesses).
El Manosanta está Cargado

Horacio and Claudio are two friends who plan to spend a fun weekend with two young ladies. Settling into the home of Aunt Lucrezia, a millionaire who is traveling through Europe, a lender shows up and ruins his plans.
Así no hay cama que aguante

A widowed lawyer meets a beautiful woman who is going through her divorce and helps her get custody of her children.
El rey de los exhortos

Count Dracula travels to Buenos Aires with his secretary and stays in a very special hotel, where several mobsters are also staying.