Paolo Laganà
Biography
Paolo Laganà, born October 28, 1986, in Italy, is an Italian-German film director whose work explores themes of queer identity, intimacy, and memory. They currently live and work in Berlin, Germany, where they attended the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB).
Known For & Full Filmography5 Titles
Movie - 2012, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
2012 Italian drama; title is German slang for "Wop"
Movie - 2012, 2h 15m • as Italian at the pharmacy
Marius is a divorced man in his late thirties. His five year-old daughter Sofia lives with her mother, which causes Marius a deep frustration. On the day Marius arrives to take his daughter on their annual holiday, he is told that she is ill but he doesn't believe it and insists to take her with him. The situation soon gets out of control with all the family taking part in a web of humor, violence, childish songs, police interventions and love statements.
Movie - 2019, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Lars, a male nurse from Saarbrücken, moves to Berlin with his lover, Roland. They begin to renovate an apartment and their happiness seems almost complete. What Roland doesn’t know is that, while secretly checking out Berlin’s night life, Lars is also experimenting with a deadly poison.
Movie - 2010, 2h 15m • as Himself
The portrait of a lonely man in his apartment
Movie - 2015, 2h 15m • as Security Guard
A former political police agent that has left communist Romania decades ago in search of freedom has to go back to find it.