
Francisco Múgica
Directing
Biography
Francisco Mugica (1907-1985) was a film editor, screenwriter, cinematographer and director. He was one of the greatest creators of the bourgeois comedies of the 1940s in Argentine cinema and was married to the actress Alímedes Nelson.
Known For

A single man and womanizer who enjoys the nightlife learns that he has a son who is already an adult. In order to gain his affection he decides to change his life. Things get complicated when he needs to return to his past life, this time to save his family from ruin.
El solterón

Faced with her own reflection, a woman traces the events that led her to renounce love, and the sacrifices she has made for her mother and sister.
El espejo
The employees of a cabaret who aspire to become artists get the opportunity to work on the radio.
Radio Bar

An insurance broker and his misadventures for trying to finalize a policy.
Piantadino

An architect goes on vacation and begins an affair with a young woman in a small town in Córdoba.
El viaje

The history of a Buenos Aires family over three decades.
Así es la vida

The members of a Buenos Aires family have three hobbies — "berretines" in Buenos Aires slang — that keep them apart of their duties. Because of that, the family business is going down, and the only one who is concerned is the father, who hopes for his fourth son, an architect, to save the situation.
Los Tres Berretines

A grocer gets rich speculating on the shortages generated by World War II until he suffers the consequences firsthand.
La guerra la gano yo

During the colonial period, a man buys a small piece of land in Mendoza and marries a slave woman. The dry and arid climate harms the yield of the land from it. In need of money to buy the freedom of his spouse, he decides to undertake the task of building with his own hands a kilometric ditch that carries water from the river to his fields.
Rescate de sangre

A rumor spreads about a man being bad luck. His superstitious friends believe it, but it's all part of an evil scheme to ruin the man's upcoming wedding. Adapted from the play of the same name by Gregorio de Laferrere.
Jettatore

A young couple, Margarita and Armando, reenact the story of The Lady of the Camellias, as they fall in love, Armando's flamboyant father disapproves of their relationship and does everything to separate them.
Margarita, Armando and his father

To investigate a robbery, a journalist embarks on the maiden voyage of a ship that will never take place
El barco sale a las diez

The daughter of a minister pretends to be a worker to conquer the opposition deputy and discover the evidence that he proposes to present against her father.
La hija del ministro

A recently married woman runs away from her husband upon discovering that he had had a mistress. The father-in-law, determined to fix things, also becomes entangled in a disgust with his wife.
Adam's Pajamas

Three Argentines who live in Paris and dream of returning to Buenos Aires but lack resources for the passage, find their opportunity when a landowner, a business man and his daughter arrive in Paris. In a game of rigged poker the three anchors obtain the money for the passages from the newcomers; it happens however that the employer has made an embezzlement and will go to jail if he does not return the money. The character represented by Parravicini, who is the true father of his adopted daughter, gives him the money won to solve his problem and the three remain in Paris to see them in an end with the best poetry of Romero crossing a bridge under the mist , silent, once again anchored but with the happy sadness of recovered self-esteem.
Three Argentines in Paris

The story is based on Elenita, the younger of four sisters, young, timid and romantic. To try to change her character and give her an illusion, his father sends her weekly a bouquet of orchids making her believe they are from a secret admirer.
On Tuesdays, Orchids

Margarita, the nun of a cloistered convent in charge of handling the lathe, this is a rotating mechanism provided with a small window through which she delivered and received things from the outside without direct visual contact, she is seduced by a Don Juan and induced to escape with him .
Milagro de amor

A humble maid is confused with a millionaire from a misunderstanding in the hotel that works and a journalist falls madly in love with her.
Mi novia es un fantasma

Various love and crime stories take place in the context of a theater, between tango singers, musicians and dancers.
Noches de Buenos Aires

A town football player becomes a figure for his strange gift of gaining strength by listening to the barking of a dog.