Rogério Sganzerla

ActorCinematographerWriterDirectorEditor Nov 26 (died age 57) Joaçaba, Santa Catarina, Brazil 1966–2026 (60 year career)

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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 t…

Known For

Film

The Red Light Bandit

Man in the theater (uncredited)

Film

The Woman of Everyone

Director

Film

Copacabana Mon Amour

Director

Film

The Sign of Chaos

Director

Film

Documentário

Editor

Film

Garden of War

Additional Writing

Film

No Way, Spider

Director

Film

Brasil

Director

Filmography

Acting (24)

Movies (24)

Identidade

2026

as Rogério Sganzerla (Imagens de Arquivo)

The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus

2023

9.0

The Good Cinema

2021

as Self

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

2020

as Self (archive footage)

5.0

Ivan, the TerrirBle

2020

as Self (archive footage)

1.0

Extracts

2019

A Mulher da Luz Própria

2019

as Self (archive footage)

8.0

Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century

2017

as Self

Copacabana, Mon Amour: A Restauração

2014

as Self (archive footage)

Mr. Sganzerla: Os Signos da Luz

2012

3.5

Belair

2009

Rogério Sganzerla e Sylvio Renoldi sobre "O Bandido da Luz Vermelha"

2006

A Miss e o Dinossauro

2005

as Himself (archive footage) / (Voz em Off)

5.0

A Marca do Terrir

2005

as Self

2.0

Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth

2003

as Self

5.8

O Galante Rei da Boca

2003

as Himself

Torquato Neto, O Anjo Torto da Tropicália

1992

as Self

Rogério Sganzerla Send His Message to Brazil

as Himself

Welles' Language

as Self

Noel por Noel

The Universe of Mojica Marins

1978

as Self

Horror Palace Hotel

as Himself

Audácia!

The Red Light Bandit

as Man in the theater (uncredited)

7.6

Crew (55)

Movies (55)

Extracts

2019

Director of Photography

My Calendar Girl

2018

Screenplay

2.0

Light in Darkness: The Return of Red Light Bandit

2012

Story

5.2

A Miss e o Dinossauro

2005

Camera Operator

5.0

Informação H. J. Koellreutter

Director

The Sign of Chaos

Director

Reinvenção da Rua

Editor

Editor

It's All Brazil

Director

Oswaldianas

Director

Perigo Negro

1992

Director

5.0

América: O Grande Acerto de Vespúcio

1992

Director

Welles' Language

Director

Anônimo e incomum

Director

Isto é Noel Rosa

Director

Isto é Noel Rosa

Writer

It's Not All True

Director

Irani

Director

A Cidade do Salvador (Petróleo Jorrou na Bahia)

Editor

Brasil

Director

Brasil

Editor

Brasil

Producer

Noel por Noel

Editor

Um Sorriso Por Favor: O Mundo Gráfico de Goeldi

1981

Editor

The Abyss

Costume Design

The Abyss

Director

The Abyss

Editor

The Abyss

Music Supervisor

The Abyss

Producer

The Abyss

Screenplay

Ritos Populares: Umbanda no Brasil

1977

Director

6.0

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

1977

Director

6.0

The Werewolf: A Midnight Terror

Cinematography

Watch Out, Madame

Producer

The Monsters of Babaloo

Cinematography

Copacabana Mon Amour

Director

Copacabana Mon Amour

Music

Copacabana Mon Amour

Producer

Copacabana Mon Amour

Screenplay

No Way, Spider

Director

The Hullabaloo Family

1970

Producer

6.0

Carnaval na Lama

1970

Director

Comics

1969

Director

6.8

Baron Olavo, The Horrible

1969

Producer

5.5

Quadrinhos no Brasil

1969

Director

The Woman of Everyone

Director

Garden of War

Additional Writing

The Red Light Bandit

Director

The Red Light Bandit

Original Music Composer

The Red Light Bandit

Producer

The Red Light Bandit

Writer

Eye for an Eye

Editor

Documentário

Editor

The Interview

Editor

O Pedestre

Editor