Friends Forever (1987 film)
Friends Forever | |
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Danish | Venner for altid |
Directed by | |
Written by | Stefan Henszelman |
Produced by | |
Starring | Morten Stig Christensen Lill Lindfors |
Cinematography | |
Edited by | Stefan Henszelman |
Music by | Christian Skeel |
Release date |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | Denmark |
Language | Danish |
Friends Forever (Danish: Venner for altid, lit. "Friends for All Time") is a Danish film produced in 1986 and released at the beginning of 1987. It was directed by to a script by himself and , was shown to large audiences in New York City, Washington, D.C. and San Francisco and garnered the 1988 Audience Award at the San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival.
The film was successfully shown at the 2005 Copenhagen Gay and Lesbian Film Festival by its Danish distributor, Nordisk.
Henszelman lived to direct one more film, (1990). He died of AIDS on October 2, 1991, aged 31.[citation needed]
Plot[]
Teenager Kristian Malmquist moves to a new neighborhood and makes friends with two boys in his new school: Henrik, an independent loner, and Patrick, leader of a gang. Later on, Kristian is startled to find Patrick is having an affair with the captain of a soccer team and this leads him to explore his own feelings.
Cast[]
- as Rektor Kallenbach
- as Dan Carstensen
- as Anders
- as Berit
- as Patrick
- as Sophie
- as Kristian
- Morten Stig Christensen as Mads
- as Medlem af band
- as Henrik
Unnamed;
References[]
- Det Danske Filminstitut/The Danish Film Institute [1]
- IMDb: [2]
- Murray, Raymond: Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Film and Video. N.Y., TLA Publications, 1994
External links[]
- 1987 films
- Danish-language films
- Danish films
- Danish coming-of-age drama films
- 1987 drama films
- 1987 LGBT-related films
- Danish LGBT-related films
- LGBT-related drama films
- 1980s coming-of-age drama films
- LGBT-related drama film stubs
- Danish film stubs