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.Trailer
Info
Il legionario
Fiction Feature
Italian
Veto! | FF2021
Italy, France
2021
81 min
OV with English subtitles
Hleb Papou
Giuseppe Brigante, Emanuele Mochi, Hleb Papou
Germano Gentile, Maurizio Bousso, Marco Falaguasta, Félicité Mbezelé
Gabriella Buontempo, Massimo Martino, Antoine de Clermont, Tonnerre
Luca Nervegna
Giandomenico Petillo
Fabrizio Paterniti Martello, Fabrizio Franzini
Andrea Boccadoro
Virginia Vianello
Grazia Colombini
Giulia Fusaroli
Fandango
Clemart; Mact Productions
Rai Cinema
Chiara Sortino, Fandango: sales@fandango.it
Tags
WorkFamily and RelationshipsSocietyViolenceHuman RightsMotherRacism and Discrimination