Hugo Sofovich

Directing

Hugo Sofovich

Born — Died

1939-12-18 — 2003-01-12

Place of birth

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Known for

Directing

Credits

36 titles

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

Film credits

Behind the camera

Así no hay cama que aguante poster
5.9

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

1980

Así no hay cama que aguante poster
5.9

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

1980

La herencia del Tío Pepe poster
4.0

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

1998

La herencia del Tío Pepe poster
4.0

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

1998

Los vampiros los prefieren gorditos poster
6.5

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

Los vampiros los prefieren gorditos

1974

El Manosanta está Cargado poster
7.3

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

1987

El Manosanta está Cargado poster
7.3

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

1987

La fiesta de todos poster
10.0

Documentary about Argentina's victory in the 1978 FIFA World Cup, held in that country during its last dictatorship.

La fiesta de todos

1979

The Surgeons Use Their Hands poster
6.8

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

1980

The Surgeons Use Their Hands poster
6.8

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

1980

Te rompo el rating poster
5.9

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

1981

Te rompo el rating poster
5.9

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

1981

Los doctores las prefieren desnudas poster
7.5

Alberto, an employee of a car dealership, is commissioned by his boss to deliver a car that has been sold to a customer. Being a luxury car, he has no better idea than to invent an excuse to the new owner of the vehicle, delay delivery for the next day and use it to go out to have fun at night with his faithful friend Jorge. They both go to a revue theatre and, while witnessing the performance, the first vedette (Corina) faints. Then Alberto and Jorge pose as doctors, in order to meet Corina. As is to be expected, both decide to continue the deception with the passing of the days, causing the confusion to become bigger and bigger and harder to keep secret.

Los doctores las prefieren desnudas

1973

Custodio de señoras poster
7.0

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

1979

Custodio de señoras poster
7.0

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

1979

El rey de los exhortos poster
6.4

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

1979

El rey de los exhortos poster
6.4

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

1979

El telo y la tele poster
4.7

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

1985

Un terceto peculiar poster
7.2

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

1982

Un terceto peculiar poster
7.2

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

1982

Las mujeres son cosa de guapos poster
7.3

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

1981

Las mujeres son cosa de guapos poster
7.3

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

1981

The Knights of the Round Bed poster
7.0

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

1973

The Knights of the Round Bed poster
7.0

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

1973

La noche del hurto poster
4.3

No synopsis available yet.

La noche del hurto

1976

La noche del hurto poster
4.3

No synopsis available yet.

La noche del hurto

1976

Expertos en pinchazos poster
6.6

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

1979

Expertos en pinchazos poster
6.6

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

1979

Shared Apartment poster
7.1

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

1980

Shared Apartment poster
7.1

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

1980

Amante para dos poster
7.1

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

1981

Amante para dos poster
7.1

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

1981

Un toque diferente poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Un toque diferente

1977

Un toque diferente poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Un toque diferente

1977

Un toque diferente poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Un toque diferente

1977