Lasse Braun initially produced so-called loops, ten-minute hardcore movies that he sold to Reuben Sturman, who distributed them to 60,000 American peep show booths.
12 Facts About Lasse Braun
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Lasse Braun is the father of American pornographer Axel Braun.
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Lasse Braun was born into a wealthy, aristocratic Italian family as Alberto Ferro, and was destined to become a diplomat, following in his father's footsteps.
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Lasse Braun passed all of his law exams at the State University of Milan, and while preparing the defense of his doctoral dissertation entitled Judiciary Censorship in the Western World, its contents and underlying radical ideas provoked so much controversy that it was promptly dismissed.
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Lasse Braun died from complications of diabetes on February 16,2015 in Rome, Italy at the age of 78.
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In 1972, Lasse Braun moved to the Dutch town of Breda, where he bought an old meat factory, to be renovated as his headquarters.
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Lasse Braun's movies differ markedly from the traditional so-called stag films made from 1916 onwards; storylines featuring Viking invasions, James Bond spoofs, and exotic locales such as Caribbean islands, the Dutch Groeneveld Castle and an Amsterdam art gallery, not to mention props such as chocolate cake, champagne and bananas contributed to a more playful and relaxed atmosphere than commonly seen in this inherently limited genre.
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Disillusioned, Lasse Braun decamped to Italy, where he made a number of softporn movies.
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Lasse Braun's only known son, Axel Braun, continued the family trade in the United States of America, after obtaining a doctorate in Psychology.
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Lasse Braun appeared in the television series Pornography: A Secret History of Civilisation and in a documentary about himself, I, the King of Porn.
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In 1999, Lasse Braun became the first European movie director to have been inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame by Adult Video News.
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In 2019 Lasse Braun was awarded a posthumous AVN Best Screenplay Award for the movie The Possession of Mrs Hyde, which he co-wrote with his son Axel Braun and his grandson Rikki Braun.