Hugo del Carril
Biography: Piero Bruno Hugo Fontana Bertani, known as Hugo del Carril (November 30, 1912 - August 13, 1989), was an Argentine film actor, film director and tango singer of the classic era. He began his career as a singer of tango choruses at the age of fifteen. He made his film debut as an actor in 1937 and in 1949 as a director. In 1948 he would go on to immortality as the voice of La Marcha Peronista, for which he would be persecuted and imprisoned in 1955 after the coup against the government of Juan Domingo Perón.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 27, 1912
Deathday: August 13, 1989
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La novela de un joven pobre
1942-01-01
La novela de un joven pobre
Overview: After losing all his fortune, a man assumes his poverty with dignity, confidence and effort. He faces all adversities and his nobility and perseverance make him succeed and be happy with the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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La canción de los barrios
1941-03-05
La canción de los barrios
Overview: A young man starts working as a laborer in his father's shipyards and discovers a series of injustices.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-03-05
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Los muchachos de antes no usaban gomina
1937-03-30
Los muchachos de antes no usaban gomina
Overview: A Young man from a wealthy family hide them his attraction for tango culture of arrabal. In a milonga he fell in love with Mirella and he have a knife fight with all others guapos that want her, he won. Time pass and Mirella became a mistress but this situation is unstable because of the society prejudices.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1937-03-30
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Vida nocturna
1955-03-18
Vida nocturna
Overview: A cabaret in Buenos Aires on Christmas night.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-03-18
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Pasión imposible
1943-03-17
Pasión imposible
Overview: A girl marries a writer, with whom her older sister is also in love; and when she gets sick, her sister takes care of her family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-03-17
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Buenos Aires canta
1947-06-03
Buenos Aires canta
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-06-03
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Cómo se hace una película argentina
1948-01-01
Cómo se hace una película argentina
Overview: Institutional short film planned and directed by Arturo S. Mom for the First Argentine Film Festival in Mar del Plata. The film shows the technical process by which an Argentine film is produced and emphasizes the professionalism and power of the national film industry. In this way, the story explains in a pedagogical way what is a script, a frame, a camera, a set sketch and a projected background, among others, and how a scene and the soundtrack of a film are recorded.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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Buenos días, Buenos Aires
1966-08-26
Buenos días, Buenos Aires
Overview: Documentary that describes the awakening of the city and its daily movement.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-08-26
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El socio
1946-04-18
El socio
Overview: A former singer, determined to succeed in business, comes up with a partner and just believing their existence. In the end, wake up ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-04-18
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El último perro
1956-03-14
El último perro
Overview: During the second half of the 19th century, a young survivor is saved in the Argentine pampas by a man she ends up marrying.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-03-14
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A media luz
1947-01-15
A media luz
Overview: Tango singer exploits the women in his life. Learns a valuable life-lesson.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-01-15
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Beyond Oblivion
1956-01-02
Beyond Oblivion
Overview: After a period of sorrow, Fernando de Arellano, a rich businessman who has recently lost his young wife Blanca from a serious ilness, meets Mónica, who looks identical to her.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-01-02
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Siempre fuimos compañeros
1973-01-21
Siempre fuimos compañeros
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-01-21
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La vida de Carlos Gardel
1939-05-24
La vida de Carlos Gardel
Overview: The life, hardships, love affairs, triumphs and failures of the world-renowned tango singer Carlos Gardel.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-05-24
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Historia del 900
1949-05-19
Historia del 900
Overview: In the Buenos Aires of 1900, a man seeks to avenge the death of his brother, killed at the exit of a fight.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-05-19
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La cabalgata del circo
1945-05-30
La cabalgata del circo
Overview: The lives, loves and vicissitudes of a group of circus performers in the Argentine Pampas around the turn of the century are played out in this drama with songs.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-05-30
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The Black Man Who Had a White Soul
1951-05-28
The Black Man Who Had a White Soul
Overview: Peter Ward is a black singer who arrives to Madrid in 1907. He falls in love with Emma, and he offers her to be her dancer. She is restrained by her racial prejudices which will lead to an inevitable separation between them.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-05-28
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Surcos de sangre
1950-06-23
Surcos de sangre
Overview: Melodrama that tells the tragedy of a peasant family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-06-23
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Fire in the Flesh
1958-01-17
Fire in the Flesh
Overview: Physicist Theodore Heldt, his young daughter Fern and his assistant Larry Gordon, on board a ship for a scientific expedition, are shipwrecked in the Pacific Ocean after a terrible storm. They find themselves safe and sound on an exotic desert island paradise. Several years pass, the professor dies and Fern and Larry, long in love and alone in the world, are united. One day, the ship they'd been waiting for appears, but the sailors are three smugglers who, instead of representing salvation, pose a threat to the young couple.
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-01-17
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Pobre mi madre querida
1948-03-07
Pobre mi madre querida
Overview: Contrary to the principles of his mother and sister, a boy falls in love with a woman of light life.
Genres: Drama Music Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-03-07
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Amorina
1961-04-06
Amorina
Overview: A woman feels abandoned by her husband and children.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-04-06
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Las tierras blancas
1959-02-19
Las tierras blancas
Overview: The miserable life of the inhabitants of a town in Santiago del Estero, between crime, revenge and drought.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-02-19
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Esta tierra es mía
1961-11-06
Esta tierra es mía
Overview: The life of the cotton workers in the Chaco and its struggle for wages.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-11-06
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Culpable
1960-06-02
Culpable
Overview: A criminal confronts the police by firing at them with a machine gun from the first floor of a villa on the outskirts of Buenos Aires and occasionally shooting down a policeman. The gunman has time to reflect, to load his gun, to run from one window to the other. Whoever leads the police notices the futility of his efforts and suspends the fire.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-06-02
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La calesita
1963-10-30
La calesita
Overview: When listening to a melody, an old man recalls moments of his childhood.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-10-30
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Good Night, Buenos Aires
1964-10-09
Good Night, Buenos Aires
Overview: Various musical episodes make up this film-magazine in which Del Carril tried to merge his two great passions: cinema and tango.
Genres: Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-10-09
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La sentencia
1964-06-09
La sentencia
Overview: A young man discovers an infidelity and kills his wife. He was in love with this girl and had married her to get her out of a correctional institute.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-06-09
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La noche y tú
1946-06-26
La noche y tú
Overview: Tango singer exploits his popularity in high society to commit crimes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-06-26
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Dark River
1952-10-09
Dark River
Overview: The Peralta brothers work in the countryside the Alto Paraná. There they will meet subhuman working conditions. Finally, the workers rise and harshly punish their exploiters.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-10-09
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Madreselva
1938-01-10
Madreselva
Overview: A film star enjoys a romance with the daughter of a puppeteer, but his criminal past threatens to ruin it.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1938-01-10
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El último payador
1950-02-09
El último payador
Overview: The film tells the story of the payador José Betinotti, a mythical character in Argentine music. It faithfully reconstructs the scenarios of the early twentieth century: the workers' struggles, the party meetings of the caudillos and the circus criollo, the cradle of Argentine theater and music.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-02-09
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La cumparsita
1947-04-20
La cumparsita
Overview: A reporter and tango singer is sent to the war zone in 1916, where he loses his memory.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-04-20
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Gente bien
1939-06-28
Gente bien
Overview: A single mother who is denied work to support the son she had with the aristocrat who had seduced her, is helped by a singer, a director of orchestra and an American female singer, who get her shelter in the humble pension where they live.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-06-28
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La vida es un tango
1939-02-08
La vida es un tango
Overview: Romance - with its ruptures and reunions - between a girl and a boy who want to succeed with the tango.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-02-08
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En la luz de una estrella
1941-05-07
En la luz de una estrella
Overview: A successful tango singer struggles to cope with the demands and opportunities of fame.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-05-07
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El astro del tango
1940-02-07
El astro del tango
Overview: Accidental meeting between a pop-music superstar and a politician's daughter turns into a big romance... but class distinctions, and scandal in the family.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-02-07
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Confesión
1940-01-25
Confesión
Overview: Group of tango musicians picks up an aspiring young chanteuse at one of their whistle stop engagements; film focuses on their collective path to stardom, romantic conflicts between the woman and two guys in the band and some peripheral crime-drama stuff.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-01-25
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The Bad Life
1973-06-28
The Bad Life
Overview: Buenos Aires, 1920. The Franco-Argentine and Polish-Argentine mafia begin a war for the control of the traffic of women and prostitution, based on real events about the 1920s Buenos Aires Mafias war.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-06-28
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Amalio Reyes, un hombre
1970-04-16
Amalio Reyes, un hombre
Overview: Some years from the life of a neighborhood tough in Buenos Aires around 1915.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-04-16
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El día que me quieras
1969-04-17
El día que me quieras
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Genres: Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-04-17
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La vuelta de Rocha
1937-09-08
La vuelta de Rocha
Overview: A sailor and a tango singer fall in love. To protect her, the man takes her to live with his family. But before embarking, he is robbed, and the circumstances accuse the girl of being an accomplice of the criminals.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1937-09-08
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Cuando canta el corazón
1941-08-06
Cuando canta el corazón
Overview: A boy's family wants him to marry a girl of the same position even though he is in love with another girl.
Genres: Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-08-06
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En marcha…
1964-01-01
En marcha…
Overview: En marcha... is a medium-length film from 1964 that tells the story of the Luz y Fuerza trade union with the direction and story of Hugo del Carril.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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La piel de zapa
1943-10-28
La piel de zapa
Overview: A man in debt obtains a miraculous skin that makes all his wishes come true but at the cost of shortening his life.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-10-28
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Three Argentines in Paris
1938-01-01
Three Argentines in Paris
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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Los dos rivales
1944-02-04
Los dos rivales
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-02-04
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Amor último modelo
1942-12-16
Amor último modelo
Overview: The daughter of a fashion house owner falls in love with the designer of a competitor business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-12-16
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El canto cuenta su historia
1976-08-27
El canto cuenta su historia
Overview: A parade of musical paintings that includes fragments of Argentine films and a Proartel television program that Channel 13 broadcast in 1965.
Genres: Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-08-27
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¡Viva la vida!
1969-10-02
¡Viva la vida!
Overview: A couple of screenwriters try to find a new idea for a movie.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-10-02
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