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Rogério Sganzerla

Rogério Sganzerla

Director · 1946–2004 · Joaçaba, Santa Catarina, Brazil

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Rogério Sganzerla (1946 — 2004) was a Brazilian filmmaker and one of the main names of the Cinema de Invenção (or Cinema Marginal) underground movement. Influenced by Orson Welles, Jean-Luc Godard, and José Mojica Marins, Sganzerla often used clichés from film noir and pornochanchadas. Irony, narrative subversion and collage were trademarks of his film aesthetics. Sganzerla was born in Joaçaba, in the state of Santa Catarina, but moved with his family to São Paulo at a very young age, living there for most of his life. During the 1960s he wrote for the newspaper "O Estado de S. Paulo" ("The State of S. Paulo") as film critic, quickly being recognised as a young talent. In 1967, Sganzerla directed his first short film, "Documentário" ("Documentary"), winning an award at the JB-Mesbla 16mm Festival. "Documentário" was quickly followed up by his first feature-length film in 1968, "O Bandido da Luz Vermelha" ("The Red Light Bandit"), which became a landmark for the movement known as Cinema de Invenção or Cinema Marginal and is still Sganzerla's most well-known film. In 1970, he founded the "Bel-Air Filmes" production company along with fellow Cinema de Invenção filmmaker Júlio Bressane. Headed by Sganzerla, the company produced his films "Copacabana Mon Amour", "Carnaval na Lama" and "Sem Essa, Aranha" and Bressane's "A Família do Barulho", "Barão Olavo, o Horrível" and "Cuidado, Madame", all shot in Brazil during four months of 1970 and edited abroad, in England, when both Sganzerla and Bressane were banished from their home country by the then rulling military dictatorship. While in exile, both Sganzerla and Bressane continued to shoot new films. Sganzerla's personal obsessions, such as director Orson Welles (and his infamous visit to Brazil) and musicians Noel Rosa and Jimi Hendrix, appear in many of his films, going as far as being the main subject in some of them. In 1985, Sganzerla directed the docufiction "Nem Tudo É Verdade" ("It's Not All True") about Orson Welles' arrival in Brazil to film his unfinished documentary "It's All True". Sganzerla died in 2004, of a brain tumor, shortly after finishing his last film "O Signo do Caos" ("The Sign of Chaos"). Description above from the Wikipedia article Rogério Sganzerla licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Directed 26

2000s

  1. 2003

    The Sign of Chaos

    Director

  2. Informação H. J. Koellreutter

    Director

  3. 2001

    B2

    Director

1990s

  1. 1997

    It's All Brazil

    Director

  2. 1993

    It's All True

    Assistant Director

  3. 1992

    Oswaldianas

    Director

  4. Perigo Negro

    Director

  5. América: O Grande Acerto de Vespúcio

    Director

  6. 1990

    Anônimo e incomum

    Director

  7. Isto é Noel Rosa

    Director

  8. Welles' Language

    Director

1980s

  1. 1986

    It's Not All True

    Director

  2. Ritos Populares: Umbanda no Brasil

    Director

  3. 1983

    Irani

    Director

  4. 1981

    Brasil

    Director

  5. A Cidade do Salvador (Petróleo Jorrou na Bahia)

    Director

  6. Noel por Noel

    Director

1970s

  1. 1977

    The Abyss

    Director

  2. Travel and Description of the Guanabara River on the Occasion of Antarctic France

    Director

  3. 1970

    No Way, Spider

    Director

  4. Copacabana Mon Amour

    Director

1960s

  1. 1969

    The Woman of Everyone

    Director

  2. Quadrinhos no Brasil

    Director

  3. Comics

    Director

  4. 1968

    The Red Light Bandit

    Director

    74
  5. 1966

    Documentário

    Director

Wrote 18

2010s

  1. 2018

    My Calendar Girl

    Screenplay

  2. 2012

    Light in Darkness: The Return of Red Light Bandit

    Story, Writer

2000s

  1. 2003

    The Sign of Chaos

    Writer

  2. 2001

    B2

    Writer

1990s

  1. 1997

    It's All Brazil

    Writer

  2. 1990

    Isto é Noel Rosa

    Writer

1980s

  1. 1986

    It's Not All True

    Writer

  2. Ritos Populares: Umbanda no Brasil

    Writer

  3. 1983

    Irani

    Writer

  4. 1981

    A Cidade do Salvador (Petróleo Jorrou na Bahia)

    Writer

  5. Noel por Noel

    Writer

1970s

  1. 1977

    The Abyss

    Screenplay

  2. 1970

    No Way, Spider

    Writer

  3. Copacabana Mon Amour

    Screenplay

1960s

  1. 1969

    The Woman of Everyone

    Writer

  2. Quadrinhos no Brasil

    Writer

  3. 1968

    The Red Light Bandit

    Writer

    74
  4. 1966

    Documentário

    Writer

Edited 13

2000s

  1. 2003

    The Sign of Chaos

    Editor

  2. Reinvenção da Rua

    Editor

  3. 2001

    B2

    Editor

1980s

  1. 1983

    Irani

    Editor

  2. 1981

    Brasil

    Editor

  3. A Cidade do Salvador (Petróleo Jorrou na Bahia)

    Editor

  4. Noel por Noel

    Editor

1970s

  1. 1977

    The Abyss

    Editor

  2. 1970

    No Way, Spider

    Editor

1960s

  1. 1966

    The Interview

    Editor

  2. Eye for an Eye

    Editor

  3. Documentário

    Editor

  4. O Pedestre

    Editor

Produced 13

2000s

  1. 2003

    The Sign of Chaos

    Producer

1990s

  1. 1997

    It's All Brazil

    Producer

1980s

  1. 1986

    Ritos Populares: Umbanda no Brasil

    Producer

  2. 1981

    Brasil

    Producer

  3. Noel por Noel

    Producer

1970s

  1. 1977

    The Abyss

    Producer

  2. 1970

    Baron Olavo, The Horrible

    Producer

  3. The Rowdy Family

    Producer

  4. Copacabana Mon Amour

    Producer

  5. Watch Out, Madame

    Producer

1960s

  1. 1969

    The Woman of Everyone

    Producer

  2. 1968

    The Red Light Bandit

    Producer

    74
  3. 1966

    Documentário

    Producer

Acted in 8

2020s

  1. 2026

    Identidade

    Rogério Sganzerla (Imagens de Arquivo)

  2. 2023

    The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus

    Movie

2010s

  1. 2019

    Extracts

    Movie

  2. 2012

    Mr. Sganzerla: Os Signos da Luz

    Movie

2000s

  1. 2009

    Belair

    Movie

1980s

  1. 1981

    Noel por Noel

    Movie

Sound 6

1990s

  1. 1997

    It's All Brazil

    Original Music Composer

1970s

  1. 1977

    The Abyss

    Music Supervisor

  2. 1970

    Copacabana Mon Amour

    Music

1960s

  1. 1969

    Comics

    Music

  2. 1968

    The Red Light Bandit

    Original Music Composer

    74
  3. 1966

    Documentário

    Sound

Other crew 3

1970s

  1. 1975

    The Werewolf: A Midnight Terror

    Cinematography

  2. 1970

    The Monsters of Babaloo

    Cinematography

1960s

  1. 1969

    Garden of War

    Additional Writing

Camera 3

2010s

  1. 2019

    Extracts

    Director of Photography

2000s

  1. 2005

    A Miss e o Dinossauro

    Camera Operator

  2. 2003

    Reinvenção da Rua

    Camera Operator

Costume and makeup 2

1970s

  1. 1977

    The Abyss

    Costume Design

1960s

  1. 1969

    The Woman of Everyone

    Costume Design

Art department 1

1960s

  1. 1969

    The Woman of Everyone

    Production Design

Appearances14

2020s

  1. 2021

    The Good Cinema

    Self

  2. 2020

    Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

    Self (archive footage)

  3. Ivan, the TerrirBle

    Self (archive footage)

2010s

  1. 2019

    A Mulher da Luz Própria

    Self (archive footage)

  2. 2017

    Dunas do Barato

    Self (archive footage)

  3. Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century

    Self

  4. 2014

    Copacabana, Mon Amour: A Restauração

    Self (archive footage)

2000s

  1. 2005

    A Marca do Terrir

    Self

  2. A Miss e o Dinossauro

    Himself (archive footage) / (Voz em Off)

  3. 2003

    Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth

    Self

1990s

  1. 1992

    Torquato Neto, O Anjo Torto da Tropicália

    Self

  2. 1991

    Rogério Sganzerla Send His Message to Brazil

    Himself

  3. 1990

    Welles' Language

    Self

1970s

  1. 1978

    Horror Palace Hotel

    Himself