Rogério Sganzerla
Filmmaker
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- Rogério Sganzerla (4 May 1946 — 9 January 2004) was a Brazilian filmmaker.
- Sganzerla was influenced by Orson Welles, Jean-Luc Godard, and José Mojica Marins, and often used clichés from film noir and pornochanchadas.
- Biography Sganzerla was born in Joaçaba, in the state of Santa Catarina.
- Paulo as film reporter.
- 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.
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). Sganzerla was influenced by Orson Welles, Jean-Luc Godard, and José Mojica Marins, and often used clichés from film noir and pornochanchadas. Irony, narrative subversion and collage were trademarks of his film aesthetics.
Biography
Sganzerla was born in Joaçaba, in the state of Santa Catarina. During 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 and Sem essa, aranha (1970). In 1985, Sganzerla directed the docufiction Nem Tudo É Verdade (It's Not All True) about Orson Welles' arrival to 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.
Filmography
References
External links
- Rogério Sganzerla at IMDb
- Dossiê Sganzerla at Contracampo Revista de Cinema
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