Gerardo Sofovich is an Argentine

Argentina

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 businessman, impresario, TV host actor, comedian, scriptwriter, and film director

Film director

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He was the producer Polémica en el bar and La noche del Domingo, two of the most popular Argentine television programs of the 1970s and '80s. Sofovich also hosted A la manera de Sofovich and Sin Límite SMS, broadcast on Canal 9

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During the 1970s and 1980s he directed several picaresque films starring comedians Alberto Olmedo

Alberto Olmedo

Alberto Olmedo was an Argentine comedian and actor.Olmedo was born in Barrio Pichincha, Rosario, Santa Fe Province. In his teens, he was a gifted gymnast and an aspiring actor, who tried his luck with several amateur theater companies and enjoyed some local success.Olmedo moved to Buenos Aires in...

 and Jorge Porcel

Jorge Porcel

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. Though critically panned, these movies were quite successful in reaching a large audience.

As a businessman, he has backed major shows on Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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' Corrientes Avenue theaters.

He has a right-wing political orientation and is closely related to former Argentine President Carlos Saul Menem. He is an avid fan of Boca Juniors

Boca Juniors

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His late brother Hugo Sofovich

Hugo Sofovich

Hugo Sofovich was an Argentine film director and screenwriter.Although predominantly a screenwriter, Sofovich directed 15 films and script write over 20 films during his career, directed and writing films such as Amante para dos in 1988...

had a similar career as a film director and theater impresario.