Hugo Mac Dougall

Movies

Allá donde el viento brama
Writer
The action takes place in Comodo Rivadavia, and reenacts a 1907 mission lead by José Fuchs, who was supposed to find water but found oil instead.
Native Pony
Writer
A young horse breeder will show his grandfather how they can adapt to the times and prove his theory.
Native Pony
Script
A young horse breeder will show his grandfather how they can adapt to the times and prove his theory.
El tambor de Tacuarí
Writer
After the May Revolution occurred, a young man abandoned his royalist uncle and became a drummer for the revolutionary army and his father's guide.
Juan Moreira
Script
Lauracha
Writer
A man loves a woman of strong character but she abandons her
Los Tres Mosqueteros
Writer
An attempt to bring the famous novel by Dumas to the cinema, where the promenades of Montevideo such as Parque Rivera and the Castillo del Parque Rodó are transformed into French settings.
Viaje sin regreso
Writer
At the core of this enormously bleak melodrama, there is a beautiful, passionate woman (Florence Marly, Chenal's wife) who capriciously oscillates between two men (Chiola, De Paula), even though she knows her fate is fatally linked to one of them.
Villa Rica del Espíritu Santo
Writer
El fin de la noche
Writer
A singer is trapped in France by the unforeseen outbreak of World War II and a man who serves the German occupiers demands, in exchange for safe conduct for herself and her daughter, to act as a spy and informer for members of the Resistance.
Three Men of the River
Writer
The film is based on an old Argentine legend about an Aztec girl who is raped and murdered by vandals and dumped in a river. A flower blossoms at the place in which she was killed and misfortune falls upon the culprits.
Malambo
Writer
Based on a quechua legend, Malambo tells the story of a woman who lost her husband and son because of the greedy patrón of an hacienda. She swore that she would never remove the cloth over her eyes until her dead were avenged by the deaths of the patrón and his daughter. Nature seems to be on her side, since a drought has afflicted the land. Her other son, Malambo, accepts the duty of revenge. Malambo is no normal human: he is the runa-uturungo, or Hombre Tigre, of Quechua lore, and he cannot be wounded by bullets. He leads the obreros to rise in revolt and defeats the patrón. However, instead of killing the patrón's daughter--the blind Urpila --he falls in love with her, thereby breaking his mother's heart.
Ceniza al viento
Writer
The story of different episodes that happen in each of the sections of a newspaper.
The Gaucho Priest
Writer
The life of José Gabriel Brochero, the Cordovan priest who dedicated his life to those most in need.
Confesión
Writer
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.
Huella
Writer
In 1840, a caravan of carts headed from Buenos Aires to Córdoba carrying merchandise, ammunition and prisoners, against the background of the struggles between the Unitarians and the Federalists.
Nobleza gaucha
Screenplay
It narrates the struggle of a rural worker to rescue the daughter of a farmer from the clutches of a wicked foreman.
Santos Vega
Writer
A 1936 film.