Companions: Tales from the Closet(1996)

movie - first aired/released 1996-10-25 - 55 min - audience 3.3

Documentary

Directed by Cecilia Neant-Falk, Nina Bergström

A heartwarming and humorous documentary about lesbian love. Five elderly Swedish women discuss their lives during a period when homosexuality was considered a perversion. They trace their personal development from self-loathing and forbidden love to a hard-won sense of emotional liberation and social openness. An internationally acclaimed and awarded documentary.