The Red Light Bandit

The Red Light Bandit
O Bandido da Luz Vermelha
Original Brazilian release poster
Directed byRogério Sganzerla
Written byRogério Sganzerla
Produced byJosé da Costa Cordeiro
José Alberto Reis
Rogério Sganzerla
StarringPaulo Villaça
Helena Ignez
Luiz Linhares
Narrated byHélio Aguiar
CinematographyPeter Overbeck
Edited bySilvio Renoldi
Music byRogério Sganzerla
Production
company
Urano Filmes
Distributed bySagres Filmes (VHS release)
Release dates
  • 12 May 1969 (1969-05-12) (Brazil)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryBrazil
LanguagePortuguese

The Red Light Bandit (Portuguese: O Bandido da Luz Vermelha) is a 1968 Brazilian crime film directed by Rogério Sganzerla,[1] inspired by the crimes of the famous real-life robber João Acácio Pereira da Costa, nicknamed the "Red Light Bandit" (Bandido da Luz Vermelha).[2] The film is regarded as a classic work of Cinema Marginal, the Brazilian underground filmmaking movement of the 1960s. Sganzerla was about 22 years old when he directed it.[3]

Sganzerla called the film a Third World western.[4]

  1. ^ Xavier, Ismail (1997). Allegories of Underdevelopment: Aesthetics and Politics in Modern Brazilian Cinema. U of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816626779.
  2. ^ "Memory of the World National Cinematic Heritage" (PDF). Unesco. 1995. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  3. ^ "Rep Diary: Tropicália - Film Comment". Film Comment. 17 November 2014. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
  4. ^ Sganzerla, Rogério (2008). O bandido da luz vermelha: argumento e roteiro (in Portuguese). Imprensa Oficial Do Estado. ISBN 978-85-7060-669-3.