One of the main names of the cinema marginal underground movement,[2] his most known work is The Red Light Bandit (1968).

[3] Sganzerla was influenced by Orson Welles, Jean-Luc Godard, and José Mojica Marins, and often used clichés from film noir and pornochanchadas.

During the 1960 decade, he wrote for the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo as film reporter.

Headed by Sganzerla, the company produced the films Copacabana Mon Amour and Sem essa, aranha (1970).

[6] Sganzerla died in 2004, of a brain tumor, shortly after finishing his last film O signo do caos.