
Directing
Rogério Sganzerla
Born — Died
1946-11-26 — 2004-01-09
Place of birth
Joaçaba, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Known for
Directing
Credits
65 titles
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 …
Known for
NRDuring a screening of Oedipus Rex in a run-down movie theater in downtown Rio, three peculiar characters—a frustrated projectionist, his intern, and a wandering poet—decide to interrupt the film to discuss the death of cinema. The audience revolts. So does the film.
Identidade
2026
7.6Born and raised in the misery of Brazilian slums, Jorge becomes a luxury house burglar in São Paulo and gets nicknamed "The Red Light Bandit" by the sensationalist press. In addition to wearing a red flashlight, he talks to his hostages in an irreverent tone and makes bold breakthroughs to later spend the money extravagantly. His world is the decadent neighbourhood of Boca do Lixo.
The Red Light Bandit
1968
6.3Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and colleagues.
Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
2003
9.0Collective film with five segments around the works and life of brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade.
Oswaldianas
1992
7.0Register a popular celebration related to a battle fought in the city of Irani, starting point of Contestado War at Santa Catarina State, Brazil in 1912.
Irani
1983
5.7A dysfunctional family, composed of a prostitute and two gay men, one strong and the other fragile and stupid, lives a routine life in Rio de Janeiro. When the slut threatens the other two to stop supporting them, they decide to find an odalisque as an alternative to keep their easy life.
The Rowdy Family
1970
Film credits
2020s · 5 titles
NRDuring a screening of Oedipus Rex in a run-down movie theater in downtown Rio, three peculiar characters—a frustrated projectionist, his intern, and a wandering poet—decide to interrupt the film to discuss the death of cinema. The audience revolts. So does the film.
Identidade
2026
5.0In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
2020
9.0For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to historical chronology but soon starts to move backwards and forward. The various pasts – the 60s, the 80s, the 2000s – comment on each other in a way that sheds light on Bressane’s themes and obsessions, which become increasingly apparent and finally, a whole idea of cinema reveals itself to the curious and patient viewer. Will Bressane, from now on, rework The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus when he makes another film? Is this his latest beginning? Why not, for the eternally young master maverick seems to embark on a maiden voyage with each and every new film!
The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
2023
NRAn authentically marginal cinema created in Catholic university in Brazil. One of the most intriguing and imaginative moments in modern cinema in the voice of some of its select conspirators—with Carlos Reichenbach at the lead—, and through the most razing flow of images that can possibly be conceived.
The Good Cinema
2021
1.0Ivan Cardoso is the inventor of the terrir, a subgenre that mixes comedy, Brazilian chanchadas and classic American horror. This film promotes a rescue of his work by mixing archival material, animations and fictional reconstructions.
Ivan, the TerrirBle
2020
2010s · 6 titles
NRTwo years of research and visits to collections, cinematheques and museums; almost seventy interviews that generated 30 hours of recorded material; more than two hundred scanned photos and more than one hundred films watched. In total, more than a thousand hours of work were needed to prepare Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century. The work is a fascinating journey through all the cinematic cycles that Brazil lived, from the pioneering Belle Époque, through the great studios like Atlântica and Cinédia, Cinema Novo, the urban comedies of the 70's, until the resumption in the late 90's. The documentary is unique, it gives the floor to who really wrote and lived this story intensely.
Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century
2017
5.5A rescue of the history of Ipanema beach in the 1970s, when the construction of a pier changed the landscape and created fertile soil for a generation of artists and sportsmen.
Dunas do Barato
2017
NRExtracts is a short film with images from 1970 to 1972 in the cities of Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, London, Marrakech, Rabat and the Sahara Desert region. The images were filmed by Helena Ignez and Rogério Sganzerla in exile, in the "leaden years" of the military dictatorship.
Extracts
2019
3.5A documentary on prolific underground Brazilian filmmaker Rogério Sganzerla.
Mr. Sganzerla: Os Signos da Luz
2012
8.0Helena Ignez is one of the main female figures of Brazilian cinema. She developed a new style of acting. Nowadays, she directs independent films. The documentary tells some of the History of Brazilian cinema, its political context and Helena's trajectory.
A Mulher da Luz Própria
2019
NRA documentary on the restoration of Rogério Sganzerla's 1970 film "Copacabana, Mon Amour".
Copacabana, Mon Amour: A Restauração
2014
2000s · 6 titles
6.3Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and colleagues.
Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
2003
NRBetween February an May of 1970, Julio Bresane and Rogerio Sganzerla made 7 films for their company Belair that were forbidden by the Brazilian censorship that reveal today images of an unique freedom.
Belair
2009
4.3Compilation of early Ivan Cardoso's films in Super 8, including "Nosferato no Brasil (Nosferato in Brazil)"
A Marca do Terrir
2005
5.0A short documentary on Belair, an independent Brazilian film company that lasted for only five months in 1970.
A Miss e o Dinossauro
2005
Documentary about the trajectory of Antônio Polo Galante, known as "The King of Boca". The film maps work and forms of production in Boca do Lixo, popular area in Luz neighborhood located downtown São Paulo, where usually night clubs and sexual services establishments were located.
O Galante Rei da Boca
2003
No synopsis available yet.
Rogério Sganzerla e Sylvio Renoldi sobre "O Bandido da Luz Vermelha"
2006
1990s · 3 titles
7.3Orson Welles acted in Brazilian culture and music by deeply researching Brazil's historical geology, consciously completing a legendary cultural mission. Although being turned down by Hollywood producers, he developed a triumphantly accomplished mission in the language domain - three friends of Welles' testified his love for cinema, his passion for Brazilian music and people and his obstinate endurance against formidable pressures coming from inside and outside Hollywood regarding his unfinished "It's All True".
Welles' Language
1990
NRA documentary chronicling the life and works of Brazilian poet, songwriter, journalist and avant-garde filmmaker Torquato Neto, from his beginnings to his suicide at the age of 28.
Torquato Neto, O Anjo Torto da Tropicália
1992
6.0In this short film, Ivan Cardoso records Brazilian film director Rogério Sganzerla sending a message to Brazil.
Rogério Sganzerla Send His Message to Brazil
1991
1980s · 1 titles
1970s · 3 titles
7.3Segment "Prólogo": interviews and scenes with some of the most important filmmakers of the "Boca do Lixo" of São Paulo. Segment "A Badaladíssima dos Trópicos x Os Picaretas do Sexo": shenanigans of a troubled fictional film production. Segment "Amor 69": Actress Maria Vargas is expected to appear nude in a scene, but ultimately refuses to do so.
Audácia!
1970
A film portrait of Jose Mojica Marins.
The Universe of Mojica Marins
1978
6.0An unusual look at 1978 Brasilia Film Festival and the politics that make certain films fashionable or not.
Horror Palace Hotel
1978
Behind the camera
7.6Born and raised in the misery of Brazilian slums, Jorge becomes a luxury house burglar in São Paulo and gets nicknamed "The Red Light Bandit" by the sensationalist press. In addition to wearing a red flashlight, he talks to his hostages in an irreverent tone and makes bold breakthroughs to later spend the money extravagantly. His world is the decadent neighbourhood of Boca do Lixo.
The Red Light Bandit
1968
7.6Born and raised in the misery of Brazilian slums, Jorge becomes a luxury house burglar in São Paulo and gets nicknamed "The Red Light Bandit" by the sensationalist press. In addition to wearing a red flashlight, he talks to his hostages in an irreverent tone and makes bold breakthroughs to later spend the money extravagantly. His world is the decadent neighbourhood of Boca do Lixo.
The Red Light Bandit
1968
7.6Born and raised in the misery of Brazilian slums, Jorge becomes a luxury house burglar in São Paulo and gets nicknamed "The Red Light Bandit" by the sensationalist press. In addition to wearing a red flashlight, he talks to his hostages in an irreverent tone and makes bold breakthroughs to later spend the money extravagantly. His world is the decadent neighbourhood of Boca do Lixo.
The Red Light Bandit
1968
9.0Collective film with five segments around the works and life of brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade.
Oswaldianas
1992
7.0Register a popular celebration related to a battle fought in the city of Irani, starting point of Contestado War at Santa Catarina State, Brazil in 1912.
Irani
1983
7.0Register a popular celebration related to a battle fought in the city of Irani, starting point of Contestado War at Santa Catarina State, Brazil in 1912.
Irani
1983
5.7A dysfunctional family, composed of a prostitute and two gay men, one strong and the other fragile and stupid, lives a routine life in Rio de Janeiro. When the slut threatens the other two to stop supporting them, they decide to find an odalisque as an alternative to keep their easy life.
The Rowdy Family
1970
6.9Orson Welles goes to Brazil to shoot his documentary It's All True.
It's Not All True
1986
6.9Orson Welles goes to Brazil to shoot his documentary It's All True.
It's Not All True
1986
8.0Two young men decide to go to the cinema. However, since their tastes are very strict, they end up in a quarrel.
Documentário
1966
8.0Two young men decide to go to the cinema. However, since their tastes are very strict, they end up in a quarrel.
Documentário
1966
8.0Two young men decide to go to the cinema. However, since their tastes are very strict, they end up in a quarrel.
Documentário
1966
7.8Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents, and exerts intense allure on them, dominating them all with her erotic power.
The Woman of Everyone
1969
7.8Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents, and exerts intense allure on them, dominating them all with her erotic power.
The Woman of Everyone
1969
7.8Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents, and exerts intense allure on them, dominating them all with her erotic power.
The Woman of Everyone
1969
7.3Sônia and her homosexual brother are both believed by their mother to be possessed by the devil. She works as a prostitute in the streets of Copacabana and he’s a servant who falls madly in love with his employer.
Copacabana Mon Amour
1970
7.3Sônia and her homosexual brother are both believed by their mother to be possessed by the devil. She works as a prostitute in the streets of Copacabana and he’s a servant who falls madly in love with his employer.
Copacabana Mon Amour
1970
7.3Sônia and her homosexual brother are both believed by their mother to be possessed by the devil. She works as a prostitute in the streets of Copacabana and he’s a servant who falls madly in love with his employer.
Copacabana Mon Amour
1970
7.3Orson Welles acted in Brazilian culture and music by deeply researching Brazil's historical geology, consciously completing a legendary cultural mission. Although being turned down by Hollywood producers, he developed a triumphantly accomplished mission in the language domain - three friends of Welles' testified his love for cinema, his passion for Brazilian music and people and his obstinate endurance against formidable pressures coming from inside and outside Hollywood regarding his unfinished "It's All True".
Welles' Language
1990
6.0Bressane’s first color film, shot in the home of the artist Elyseu Visconti. Part of it is missing sound and final editing because the director was forced to leave Brazil. Horror and humor to deal with the subject of insanity: “In the end everyone leaves the house as though they were laboratory mice escaping, they invade the city and contaminate the world”. “If we talk about horror, this film deals with national horror, with Mojica Marins as an emblem. There might be a few touches of Corman and English horror, but it is another level of horror. What transformed the film was the location where we were shooting, the house of a 19th century painter, a receptacle of light. When I arrived and saw that house, that light, I said: ‘This is the film. This is the horror’. The meaning of the film, its appeal, derives from this laboratory of light” (J. Bressane). — Torino Film Festival
Baron Olavo, The Horrible
1970
6.4A film essay about Brazil discovered through Orson Welles' eyes during the shooting of It's All True.
It's All Brazil
1997
6.4A film essay about Brazil discovered through Orson Welles' eyes during the shooting of It's All True.
It's All Brazil
1997
6.4A film essay about Brazil discovered through Orson Welles' eyes during the shooting of It's All True.
It's All Brazil
1997
5.2Jorge, bastard child of the infamous Red Light Bandit, decides himself to pursuit a life of crime after meeting with his father, who has been incarcerated for the last 30 years.
Light in Darkness: The Return of Red Light Bandit
2012
2.0A film in which dream and reality intertwine, A Moça do Calendário tells the story of inácio, 40, married, without a permanent job. Ex-street sweeper, he works as a mechanic at Barato da Pesada, where he dreams of the calendar girl.
My Calendar Girl
2018
7.2A customs agent, Dr. Amnésio, examines some reels of film, a documentary Orson Welles made about Brazil, and tries to confiscate the material. Then, a party in which repression agents celebrate their victory against freedom and creativity.
The Sign of Chaos
2003
7.2A customs agent, Dr. Amnésio, examines some reels of film, a documentary Orson Welles made about Brazil, and tries to confiscate the material. Then, a party in which repression agents celebrate their victory against freedom and creativity.
The Sign of Chaos
2003
7.2A customs agent, Dr. Amnésio, examines some reels of film, a documentary Orson Welles made about Brazil, and tries to confiscate the material. Then, a party in which repression agents celebrate their victory against freedom and creativity.
The Sign of Chaos
2003
6.0A documentary based on the book Umbanda no Brasil by the scholar Mata e Silva, who is interviewed by the director. The book studies the Brazilian religion known as spiritism, a syncretism of African beliefs and magical rites, Indian beliefs and images, and Catholic symbols.
Ritos Populares: Umbanda no Brasil
1986
6.0A documentary based on the book Umbanda no Brasil by the scholar Mata e Silva, who is interviewed by the director. The book studies the Brazilian religion known as spiritism, a syncretism of African beliefs and magical rites, Indian beliefs and images, and Catholic symbols.
Ritos Populares: Umbanda no Brasil
1986
6.0A documentary based on the book Umbanda no Brasil by the scholar Mata e Silva, who is interviewed by the director. The book studies the Brazilian religion known as spiritism, a syncretism of African beliefs and magical rites, Indian beliefs and images, and Catholic symbols.
Ritos Populares: Umbanda no Brasil
1986
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Informação H. J. Koellreutter
2003
6.2The life of samba composer Noel Rosa.
Isto é Noel Rosa
1990
6.2The life of samba composer Noel Rosa.
Isto é Noel Rosa
1990
NRNo synopsis available yet.
América: O Grande Acerto de Vespúcio
1992
7.0Documentary about power and class relations in the sociocultural context of Bahia, considering the history of oil extraction in the state.
A Cidade do Salvador (Petróleo Jorrou na Bahia)
1981
7.0Documentary about power and class relations in the sociocultural context of Bahia, considering the history of oil extraction in the state.
A Cidade do Salvador (Petróleo Jorrou na Bahia)
1981
8.0Homage to the great Brazilian samba songwriter Noel Rosa (1910-1937).
Noel por Noel
1981
8.0Homage to the great Brazilian samba songwriter Noel Rosa (1910-1937).
Noel por Noel
1981
8.0Homage to the great Brazilian samba songwriter Noel Rosa (1910-1937).
Noel por Noel
1981
