Venner for altid

Infobox Film
name = Venner for atlid


caption =
director = Stefan Henszelman
producer = Jens Ravn
writer = Stefan Henszelman
Alexander Korschen
narrator =
starring = Claus Bender Mortensen
Thomas Sigsgaard
Rita Angela
Carsten Morch
Lilla Nielsen
Lars Kylmann Jacobsen
Rasmus Bay Barlby
music = Kim Sagild
Christian Skeel
Morti Vizki
cinematography = Marcel Berga
editing = Stefan Henszelman
Camilla Skousen
distributor =
released =
runtime = 95 mins
country = Denmark
language = Danish
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0092160

Venner for altid, Friends Forever in English (literally "Friends for All Time") is a Danish filmproduced 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 receivedweasel-inline 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.Fact|date=December 2007

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.

References

*Det Danske Filminstitut/The Danish Film Institute [http://dnfx.dfi.dk/pls/dnf/pwt.page_setup?p_pagename=dnffuldvis&p_parmlist=filmid=362]
*IMDb: [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0378258]
*Murray, Raymond: "Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Film and Video". N.Y., TLA Publications, 1994