The Legionnaire

Story

A Roman legionnaire of the 21st century: a multi-facetted portrait of an African-Italian policeman questions many certainties – including one’s own. Daniel works for the police in Rome. Respected by his colleagues and appreciated by his boss, he leads a bourgeois existence with wife and child. Another part of his family, however, lives on a squatted estate which is about to be cleared by the police. Daniel’s legion is also supposed to participate. Torn between different loyalties, he tries to do right by both sides.

Director

HLEB PAPOU (*1991) was born in Belarus and has lived for two decades in Italy. The Legionnaire is his debut feature and won Best Direction at Locarno.

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