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Rogério Sganzerla
Directing
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 …
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Identidade
as Rogério Sganzerla (Imagens de Arquivo)
The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
The Good Cinema
as Self
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
as Self (archive footage)
Ivan, the TerrirBle
as Self (archive footage)
A Mulher da Luz Própria
as Self (archive footage)
Extracts
Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century
as Self
Copacabana, Mon Amour: A Restauração
as Self (archive footage)
Mr. Sganzerla: Os Signos da Luz