Movies by Hugo del Carril

La vida de Carlos Gardel
The life, hardships, love affairs, triumphs and failures of the world-renowned tango singer Carlos Gardel.

El último payador
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.

Cómo se hace una película argentina
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.

La vida es un tango
Romance - with its ruptures and reunions - between a girl and a boy who want to succeed with the tango.
Cuando canta el corazón
A boy's family wants him to marry a girl of the same position even though he is in love with another girl.

Dark River
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.

Esta tierra es mía
The life of the cotton workers in the Chaco and its struggle for wages.

La cumparsita
A young woman named Gloria, daughter of a Spanish immigrant, obtains great popularity in her neighborhood of Buenos Aires because of the way she interprets the tango. One day she enters a contest...

El astro del tango
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.

Madreselva
A film star enjoys a romance with the daughter of a puppeteer, but his criminal past threatens to ruin it.

La sentencia
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.

Beyond Oblivion
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.

Los dos rivales

Las tierras blancas
The miserable life of the inhabitants of a town in Santiago del Estero, between crime, revenge and drought.