Venner for altid

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Venner for atlid
Directed by	Stefan Henszelman
Produced by	Jens Ravn
Written by	Stefan Henszelman Alexander Korschen
Starring	Claus Bender Mortensen Thomas Sigsgaard Rita Angela Carsten Morch Lilla Nielsen Lars Kylmann Jacobsen Rasmus Bay Barlby
Music by	Kim Sagild Christian Skeel Morti Vizki
Cinematography	Marcel Berga
Editing by	Stefan Henszelman Camilla Skousen
Running time	95 mins
Country	Denmark
Language	Danish
IMDb profile

Venner for altid, Friends Forever in English (literally 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 well received^{[weasel words]} in New York 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, Dagens Donna (1990). He died of AIDS on October 2, 1991, aged 31.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Plot summary

Teenager Kristian 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.

[edit] 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