Lasse Braun

Date of birth
1936
Date deceased
16-02-2015

Biography

Lasse Braun is an Italian writer, director and producer. Braun, whose real name is actually Alberto Ferro, is one of the pioneers of the European porn film. He studied law in Milan and started making erotic films in the 1960s. After working for a number of years in Sweden and Denmark he came to the Netherlands in the 1970s. In 1977 in the Dutch town of Breda he produced the films Sensations and Body Love; these were followed by French Blue. He also worked on the erotic episode film Wet Dreams from 1974.

At the end of the 1970s Braun moved to Italy and then to the United States, where he directed several other porn films.

In 2001, the German director Thorsten Schütte made a documentary about Lasse Braun: I Was the King of Porn… The Adventurous Life of Lasse Braun.

filmography

  1. French Blue
    1974
    —
    Actor, Director, Producer
  2. Wet Dreams
    1974
    —
    Actor, Director, Script writer
  3. Sensations
    1975
    —
    Director, Producer, Script writer

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