Quick Facts
TaurusBiography
Rogério Sganzerla (4 May 1946 — 9 January 2004) was a Brazilian filmmaker. One of the main names of the cinema marginal underground movement, his most known work is The Red Light Bandit (1968). Influenced by Orson Welles, Jean-Luc Godard, and José Mojica Marins, Sganzerla often used clichés from film noir and pornochanchadas. Sarcasm, narrative subversion and collage were trademarks of his film aesthetics.
Biography
Sganzerla was born in Joaçaba, in the state of Santa Catarina. Diring the 1960 decade he wrote for the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo as film reporter. In 1967 Sganzerla directed his first short film, Documentário. In 1968 he directed his first feature film, O Bandido da Luz Vermelha (The Red Light Bandit)
In 1970 he founded the Bel-Air film company, together with Júlio Bressane. Headed by Sganzerla, the company produced the films Copacabana Mon Amour e Sem essa aranha.
Sganzerla died in 2004, of a brain tumor, shortly after finishing his last film O signo do caos.
Filmography
As director
| Year | Film | Format |
|---|---|---|
| 1966 | Documentário | Short |
| 1968 | O Bandido da Luz Vermelha | Feature |
| 1969 | Historias em Quadrinhos (comics) | Documentary |
| 1969 | Quadrinhos no Brasil | Documentary |
| 1969 | A Mulher de Todos | Feature |
| 1970 | Sem Essa, Aranha | Feature |
| 1970 | Copacabana Mon Amour | Feature |
| 1970 | Carnaval na Lama | Feature |
| 1971 | Fora do Baralho | Documentary |
| 1976 | Viagem e Descrição do Rio Guanabara Por Ocasião da França Antártica | Documentary |
| 1977 | Abismu | Feature |
| 1977 | Mudança de Hendrix | Documentary |
| 1981 | Noel por Noel | Short Documentary |
| 1981 | Brasil | Short |
| 1981 | A Cidade de Salvador (Petróleo Jorrou na Bahia) | Documentary |
| 1983 | Irani | Documentary |
| 1986 | Nem Tudo é Verdade | Feature |
| 1986 | Ritos Populares.Umbanda no Brasil | Documentary |
| 1990 | Isto é Noel Rosa | Short / Documentary |
| 1990 | Anonimo e Incomum | Documentary |
| 1990 | A Linguagem de Orson Welles | Documentary |
| 1992 | Perigo Negro | Short |
| 1992 | América: O Grande Acerto de Vespúcio | Short |
| 1997 | Tudo é Brasil | Documentary |
| 2001 | B2 | [hort |
| 2003 | Informação: H.J Koellreutter | Documentary |
| 2003 | O Signo do Caos | Feature |
