Biography
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").
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Filmography
all 53
Movies 53
Director 23
self 12
Producer 5
Writer 2
The Good Cinema (2021)
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival (2020)
Extracts (2019)
A Mulher da Luz Própria (2019)
My Calendar Girl (2018)
Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century (2017)
Copacabana, Mon Amour: A Restauração (2014)
Mr. Sganzerla: Os Signos da Luz (2012)
Belair (2009)
A Marca do Terrir (2005)
A Miss e o Dinossauro (2005)
O Signo do Caos (2003)
Rogério Sganzerla: Elogio da Luz (2003)
Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth (2003)
Informação H. J. Koellreutter (2003)
O Galante Rei da Boca (2003)
Reinvenção da Rua (2003)
B2 (2001)
Tudo é Brasil (1997)
Oswaldianas (1992)
Perigo Negro (1992)
América: O Grande Acerto de Vespúcio (1992)
Torquato Neto, O Anjo Torto da Tropicália (1992)
Rogério Sganzerla manda recado ao Brasil (1991)
Anônimo e incomum (1990)
Isto é Noel Rosa (1990)
Welles' Language (1990)
It's Not All True (1986)
Irani (1983)
Brasil (1981)
A Cidade do Salvador (Petróleo Jorrou na Bahia) (1981)
Noel por Noel (1981)
The Universe of Mojica Marins (1978)
Horror Palace Hotel (1978)
The Abyss (1977)
Ritos Populares: Umbanda no Brasil (1977)
Viagem e Descrição do Rio Guanabara Por Ocasião da França Antártica (1977)
The Werewolf: A Midnight Terror (1975)
Audácia! (1970)
A Família do Barulho (1970)
No Way, Spider (1970)
Copacabana My Love (1970)
The Monsters of Babaloo (1970)
Watch Out, Madame (1970)
The Woman of Everyone (1969)
Baron Olavo, the Horrible (1969)
Quadrinhos no Brasil (1969)
História em Quadrinhos (1969)
The Red Light Bandit (1968)
Garden of War (1968)
The Interview (1966)
Eye for an Eye (1966)
Documentário (1966)
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GenderMale
Birthday1946-05-04
Deathday2004-01-09 (57 years old)
Birth PlaceJoaçaba, Brazil
ChildrenDjin Sganzerla
CitizenshipsBrazil
AwardsOrdem do Mérito Cultural
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