Rogério Sganzerla

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1946-11-26 (58 years old)

Deathday

2004-01-09

Place of Birth

Joaçaba, Santa Catarina, Brazil

Rogério Sganzerla

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 ...

Production

1966

Documentário

as Writer

1966

Documentário

as Editor

1969

Garden of War

as Additional Writing

1969

2003

1997

It's All Brazil

as Director

1966

Documentário

as Director

1968

1970

No Way, Spider

as Director

1969

1970

1990

1977

The Abyss

as Director

1981

Brasil

as Director

1986

1990

Welles' Language

as Director

1981

Brasil

as Producer

1970

1981

Brasil

as Editor

1969

Comics

as Director

2001

B2

as Writer

2001

B2

as Editor

2001

B2

as Director

1969

Comics

as Music

1975

1977

The Abyss

as Editor

1977

The Abyss

as Costume Design

1977

The Abyss

as Producer

1977

The Abyss

as Writer

1969

The Woman of Everyone

as Costume Design

1969

1966

1966

Documentário

as Producer

1966

1992

Oswaldianas

as Director

1983

Irani

as Director

1983

Irani

as Writer

1983

Irani

as Editor

1981

Noel por Noel

as Editor

1981

Noel por Noel

as Producer

1981

Noel por Noel

as Writer

1981

Noel por Noel

as Director

1969

The Woman of Everyone

as Production Design

1990

1970

1966

The Interview

as Editor

1970

Carnaval na Lama

as Director

1970

1970

2018

My Calendar Girl

as Screenplay

1970

1966

O Pedestre

as Editor

1970

The Monsters of Babaloo

as Cinematography

2003

2003

2003

1992

Perigo Negro

as Director

1990

1986

1997

1997

It's All Brazil

as Producer

1997

It's All Brazil

as Original Music Composer

1970

1970

1970

2003

Reinvenção da Rua

as Camera Operator

2003

2005

A Miss e o Dinossauro

as Camera Operator

2019

Extracts

as Director of Photography

1968

1968

The Red Light Bandit

as Original Music Composer

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