Carlos Hugo Christensen

Directing

Carlos Hugo Christensen

Born — Died

1914-12-14 — 1999-11-30

Place of birth

Santiago del Estero, Argentina

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Carlos Hugo Christensen was an Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer. He directed 54 films between 1946 and his retirement. He lived in Venezuela, Mexico and Chile, until in the mid 1950s he relocated to Brazil where he established his own film studio, Carlos Hugo Christensen Produções Cinematográficas. Christensen retired from film in 1996 and died three years later of a heart attack in Brazil.

Known for

The Yacht Isabel Arrived This Afternoon poster
5.9

The captain of a small vessel, regularly sailing between his home island of Margarita Island in the Caribbean and the Venezuelan mainland, has two separate and very different relationships. At home, he is happily married, having named his boat Isabel after his wife. Yet on his visits to the port of La Guaira, he has a passionate affair with Esperanza, a woman working in a seedy cabaret who tries to retain him with hexes and spells. A classic of Latin American cinema, which won Best Cinematography at 1951 Cannes Film Festival.

The Yacht Isabel Arrived This Afternoon

1950

La muerte camina en la lluvia poster
6.1

A murderer terrorizes the city of Buenos Aires by attacking on the streets on rainy days and always leaving a card with the name "S. López". A local boarding house full of eccentrics appears to house a possible suspect.

La muerte camina en la lluvia

1948

If I Should Die Before I Wake poster
6.6

While playing a prank, a young boy accidentally discovers the identity of a criminal lurking in the neighborhood.

If I Should Die Before I Wake

1952

Safo, historia de una pasión poster
7.0

The relationship between an experienced woman and a youngster which develops in a passion and a further social rejection.

Safo, historia de una pasión

1943

Noche de bodas poster
7.2

For reasons that will be revealed in the end, a woman mysteriously returns to her parents' home on her wedding night.

Noche de bodas

1942

Three Loves in Rio poster
6.0

Meus Amores no Rio is a thin romantic comedy about a young woman (Suzana Freyre) who wins a trip to Rio de Janeiro on a television quiz show. Being both young and attractive and excited about the city, she manages to enchant three different men. The first man to fall for her is a pilot, and then there is the journalist, and then a womanizer.... Each encounter reveals more of the city and its impressive vistas, a fourth important protagonist in this film.

Three Loves in Rio

1959

Behind the camera

The Yacht Isabel Arrived This Afternoon poster
5.9

The captain of a small vessel, regularly sailing between his home island of Margarita Island in the Caribbean and the Venezuelan mainland, has two separate and very different relationships. At home, he is happily married, having named his boat Isabel after his wife. Yet on his visits to the port of La Guaira, he has a passionate affair with Esperanza, a woman working in a seedy cabaret who tries to retain him with hexes and spells. A classic of Latin American cinema, which won Best Cinematography at 1951 Cannes Film Festival.

The Yacht Isabel Arrived This Afternoon

1950

The Yacht Isabel Arrived This Afternoon poster
5.9

The captain of a small vessel, regularly sailing between his home island of Margarita Island in the Caribbean and the Venezuelan mainland, has two separate and very different relationships. At home, he is happily married, having named his boat Isabel after his wife. Yet on his visits to the port of La Guaira, he has a passionate affair with Esperanza, a woman working in a seedy cabaret who tries to retain him with hexes and spells. A classic of Latin American cinema, which won Best Cinematography at 1951 Cannes Film Festival.

The Yacht Isabel Arrived This Afternoon

1950

The Yacht Isabel Arrived This Afternoon poster
5.9

The captain of a small vessel, regularly sailing between his home island of Margarita Island in the Caribbean and the Venezuelan mainland, has two separate and very different relationships. At home, he is happily married, having named his boat Isabel after his wife. Yet on his visits to the port of La Guaira, he has a passionate affair with Esperanza, a woman working in a seedy cabaret who tries to retain him with hexes and spells. A classic of Latin American cinema, which won Best Cinematography at 1951 Cannes Film Festival.

The Yacht Isabel Arrived This Afternoon

1950

La muerte camina en la lluvia poster
6.1

A murderer terrorizes the city of Buenos Aires by attacking on the streets on rainy days and always leaving a card with the name "S. López". A local boarding house full of eccentrics appears to house a possible suspect.

La muerte camina en la lluvia

1948

La muerte camina en la lluvia poster
6.1

A murderer terrorizes the city of Buenos Aires by attacking on the streets on rainy days and always leaving a card with the name "S. López". A local boarding house full of eccentrics appears to house a possible suspect.

La muerte camina en la lluvia

1948

If I Should Die Before I Wake poster
6.6

While playing a prank, a young boy accidentally discovers the identity of a criminal lurking in the neighborhood.

If I Should Die Before I Wake

1952

Safo, historia de una pasión poster
7.0

The relationship between an experienced woman and a youngster which develops in a passion and a further social rejection.

Safo, historia de una pasión

1943

Noche de bodas poster
7.2

For reasons that will be revealed in the end, a woman mysteriously returns to her parents' home on her wedding night.

Noche de bodas

1942

Three Loves in Rio poster
6.0

Meus Amores no Rio is a thin romantic comedy about a young woman (Suzana Freyre) who wins a trip to Rio de Janeiro on a television quiz show. Being both young and attractive and excited about the city, she manages to enchant three different men. The first man to fall for her is a pilot, and then there is the journalist, and then a womanizer.... Each encounter reveals more of the city and its impressive vistas, a fourth important protagonist in this film.

Three Loves in Rio

1959

Three Loves in Rio poster
6.0

Meus Amores no Rio is a thin romantic comedy about a young woman (Suzana Freyre) who wins a trip to Rio de Janeiro on a television quiz show. Being both young and attractive and excited about the city, she manages to enchant three different men. The first man to fall for her is a pilot, and then there is the journalist, and then a womanizer.... Each encounter reveals more of the city and its impressive vistas, a fourth important protagonist in this film.

Three Loves in Rio

1959

Three Loves in Rio poster
6.0

Meus Amores no Rio is a thin romantic comedy about a young woman (Suzana Freyre) who wins a trip to Rio de Janeiro on a television quiz show. Being both young and attractive and excited about the city, she manages to enchant three different men. The first man to fall for her is a pilot, and then there is the journalist, and then a womanizer.... Each encounter reveals more of the city and its impressive vistas, a fourth important protagonist in this film.

Three Loves in Rio

1959

Los chicos crecen poster
6.2

A married man takes advantage of his friendship with another man, making him pretend to be the father of the children he has out of wedlock.

Los chicos crecen

1942

Los chicos crecen poster
6.2

A married man takes advantage of his friendship with another man, making him pretend to be the father of the children he has out of wedlock.

Los chicos crecen

1942

The Boy and the Wind poster
8.0

A young engineer on holiday gets involved with a boy who has a strange relationship with the wind. Their close friendship arouses suspicion in the small town. When the boy disappears, the engineer is accused of murdering him.

The Boy and the Wind

1967

The Boy and the Wind poster
8.0

A young engineer on holiday gets involved with a boy who has a strange relationship with the wind. Their close friendship arouses suspicion in the small town. When the boy disappears, the engineer is accused of murdering him.

The Boy and the Wind

1967

The Boy and the Wind poster
8.0

A young engineer on holiday gets involved with a boy who has a strange relationship with the wind. Their close friendship arouses suspicion in the small town. When the boy disappears, the engineer is accused of murdering him.

The Boy and the Wind

1967

White Eagle poster
8.5

The happiness of a child is marred by the harsh attitude of the captain of a boat.

White Eagle

1941

Matemática Zero, Amor Dez poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Matemática Zero, Amor Dez

1958

La pequeña señora de Pérez poster
8.7

A student secretly goes back to school after getting married to one of her teachers.

La pequeña señora de Pérez

1944

La señora de Pérez se divorcia poster
6.8

Mrs. Pérez wants to get divorced because she believes that her husband is unfaithful to her.

La señora de Pérez se divorcia

1945

Never Open That Door poster
7.2

A man tries to avenge the death of his sister, a gambling addict. Another man, an ex-convict who whistles when he commits a crime, is reunited with his blind mother.

Never Open That Door

1952

The Intruder poster
5.4

The parallel lives of two brothers of the "Pampas" of the Brazilian area, which much share everything they have. A woman, "the intruder", will change everything.

The Intruder

1979

The Intruder poster
5.4

The parallel lives of two brothers of the "Pampas" of the Brazilian area, which much share everything they have. A woman, "the intruder", will change everything.

The Intruder

1979

The Intruder poster
5.4

The parallel lives of two brothers of the "Pampas" of the Brazilian area, which much share everything they have. A woman, "the intruder", will change everything.

The Intruder

1979

Are We? poster
4.7

In three corners of the Buenos Aires neighborhood known as Recoleta, life and death pursue parallel paths. One of silence, death, rebellion and drugs. Lecube is staying in a hotel with his lover Celia and his son Marcelo with whom his friend Toto is trying to initiate a homosexual relationship.

Are We?

1982

Are We? poster
4.7

In three corners of the Buenos Aires neighborhood known as Recoleta, life and death pursue parallel paths. One of silence, death, rebellion and drugs. Lecube is staying in a hotel with his lover Celia and his son Marcelo with whom his friend Toto is trying to initiate a homosexual relationship.

Are We?

1982

Spring Bride poster
6.4

To impress friends and family, Cristina pretends to be the fiancée of best-selling author Pablo Reyes. When Reyes shows up in town, he good-naturedly agrees to keep up the pretense.

Spring Bride

1942

No artwork available
9.0

When a woman discovers her husband's infidelity, she decides to get divorced. But he still loves her, and learning that another guy has fallen for her, decides to change places with him. He would be the lover.

Love for Three

1958

No artwork available
9.0

When a woman discovers her husband's infidelity, she decides to get divorced. But he still loves her, and learning that another guy has fallen for her, decides to change places with him. He would be the lover.

Love for Three

1958

No artwork available
9.0

When a woman discovers her husband's infidelity, she decides to get divorced. But he still loves her, and learning that another guy has fallen for her, decides to change places with him. He would be the lover.

Love for Three

1958

Las seis suegras de Barba Azul poster
7.0

A six-time widowed man lives with his six mothers-in-law and is looking for a new wife.

Las seis suegras de Barba Azul

1945

Esse Rio que Eu Amo poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Esse Rio que Eu Amo

1962

Esse Rio que Eu Amo poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Esse Rio que Eu Amo

1962

Leonora of the Seven Seas poster
5.5

A great mystery surrounds Leonora, and it becomes even more mysterious when a stranger arrives from Buenos Aires looking for her, saying he knows her. In love with her, he is desperate when they say she is dead. Not believing what they say, he continues his search. But upon finding her, he is faced with a cruel and unexpected enigma.

Leonora of the Seven Seas

1955

Leonora of the Seven Seas poster
5.5

A great mystery surrounds Leonora, and it becomes even more mysterious when a stranger arrives from Buenos Aires looking for her, saying he knows her. In love with her, he is desperate when they say she is dead. Not believing what they say, he continues his search. But upon finding her, he is faced with a cruel and unexpected enigma.

Leonora of the Seven Seas

1955

Devil in the Flesh poster
6.6

Young newlywed girl about to embark on her honeymoon persuades older family friend to assist her in an extensive search for her missing husband. A road-trip full of comical misadventures ensues.

Devil in the Flesh

1947

Swan Song poster
6.5

A middle-age woman and a young composer live a tragic romance.

Swan Song

1945

The Violent and the Damned poster
3.5

When chain gang prisoners attack their guards, some of the hardened criminals escape Brazil's infamous Anchieta Prison amidst all the pick-ax carnage. The government dispatches a machine-gun squad to round up the fugitives.

The Violent and the Damned

1962

The Violent and the Damned poster
3.5

When chain gang prisoners attack their guards, some of the hardened criminals escape Brazil's infamous Anchieta Prison amidst all the pick-ax carnage. The government dispatches a machine-gun squad to round up the fugitives.

The Violent and the Damned

1962

Journey to Duilia's Breasts poster
9.0

A retired civil servant decides to return to his hometown to reencounter his first and only love.

Journey to Duilia's Breasts

1965