''Friends Forever'' ( da, 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 Stefan Henszelman to a script by himself and Alexander Kørschen, was shown to large audiences in

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and garnered the 1988 ''Audience Award'' at the San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. The film was successfully shown at the 2005

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Gay and Lesbian Film Festival by its Danish distributor, Nordisk. Henszelman lived to direct one more film, ''Dagens Donna'' (1990). He died of AIDS on October 2, 1991, aged 31.

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

* Rita Angela as Rektor Kallenbach * Carsten Morch as Dan Carstensen * Lars Kylmann Jacobsen as Anders * Trine Torp Hansen as Berit * Thomas Sigsgaard as Patrick * Christine Skou as Sophie * Claus Bender Mortensen as Kristian *

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as Mads * Mika Heilmann as Medlem af band * Thomas Elholm as Henrik Unnamed; * Lilla Nielsen * Rasmus Bay Barlby * Christian Kamienski * Claus Steenstrup Nielsen * Christian Adam Garnov

References

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*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 coming-of-age drama films 1987 drama films 1987 LGBT-related films 1980s Danish-language films Danish LGBT-related films LGBT-related drama films 1980s coming-of-age drama films {{Denmark-film-stub