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The Red Light Bandit (Portuguese: O Bandido da Luz Vermelha) is a 1968 Brazilian crime film directed by Rogério Sganzerla, inspired by the crimes of the famous real-life robber João Acácio Pereira da Costa, nicknamed the "Red Light Bandit" (Bandido da Luz Vermelha). 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.
Sganzerla called the film a Third World western.




Plot



Born and raised in the Brazilian slums, Jorge is a burglar of luxury houses in São Paulo. He baffles the police with his unusual modus operandi, and is nicknamed is "The Red Light Bandit" by the sensationalist press. Wearing a red flashlight he breaks into houses at night, rapes his female victims and has long irreverent conversations with them, makes daring escapes, and then spends the profits of his crimes extravagantly in the decadent Boca do Lixo district. His criminal exploits are shown in a fragmented manner, voiced over by two narrators in the style of a sensationalistic radio program.
He has an affair with Janete Jane, he meets with other burglars and a corrupt politician, and gets betrayed. Pursued and cornered, he has only one way out of his career of crime: suicide.




Cast


Paulo Villaça as Jorge, the Red Light Bandit
Helena Ignez as Janete Jane
Luiz Linhares as police officer Cabeção
Pagano Sobrinho as J.B. da Silva
Roberto Luna as Lucho Gatica
José Marinho as Tarzan
Ezequiel Neves as Reporter
Sérgio Mamberti as Homosexual
Renato Consorte as TV host
Sérgio Hingst as Millionaire
Lola Brah as Rich Woman
Antonio Lima as Gangster
Ozualdo Candeias as Criminal
Maurice Capovilla as Gangster
Carlos Reichenbach as Gangster
Sônia Braga as Victim




Reception


Film critic Ismail Xavier stated that the film treats the criminal's social milieu with irony, making use of collage, intertextuality and pastiche, in contrast with Cinema Novo's naturalistic filmmaking.
In 2015, The Red Light Bandit was chosen by Abraccine, the Brazilian Association of Film Critics, as the sixth best Brazilian film of all time. It was listed by Jeanne O Santos, from Cinema em Cena (Cinema Scene), as a "national classic".




= Awards and nominations

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1968 Festival de Brasília (Brazil)

Best Costume
Best Director
Best Editing
Best Film




Sequel


A sequel directed by Ícaro Martins and Helena Ignez, widow of Sganzerla, was released in 2010: Luz nas Trevas - A Volta do Bandido da Luz Vermelha.




References






External links


The Red Light Bandit on Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural (in Portuguese)
The Red Light Bandit at IMDb
The Red Light Bandit at Rotten Tomatoes

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