Product Details

• Directors: Cecilia Neant-Falk, Nina Bergstrom
• Format: Color, Full length, Subtitled, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 1996
• Run Time: 55 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0781506859
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #671,535 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Outfest LA Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, 1997

OUTstanding Documentary Feature

Association for Scandinavian Homosexual Culture Workers, 1997

Tupilak Culture Award

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Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT documentary, January 10, 2003

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This review is from: Companions: Tales From The Closet [VHS] (VHS Tape)

If you are at all interested in history in general, life stories or GLBT culture and history.... see this wonderful movie with witty, funny, intelligent and yet ordinary old Scandinavian lesbian women telling their life's stories. I dare you to see it without falling in love with at least one of these women!
Granted, you will - as always - get MORE out of the film if you understand Swedish, and don't have to rely on the subtitles, but it isn't at all necessary. Even with "only" the subtitles, you are still in for a great documentary experience.

5.0 out of 5 stars We had to stop loving each other. That's just how it was., May 14, 2005

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This review is from: Companions: Tales From The Closet [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This film consists of interviews with older Swedish and Swedish immigrant lesbians who talk about what it was like when they were young. One woman who grew up in the USSR was threatened with being sent to a hard labor camp by a girl's parents. "We had to stop loving each other. That's just how it was." During the Stalin era, thousands of gay men were sent to concentration camps, while women were usually more invisible and passed as companions.

All talk about hiding, pretending, trying to find themselves, trying to meet women like them. Some married men as expected, led double lives, or had other ways of coping, like pills, loneliness and depression. All those interviewed lead happy, loving, open lives today.

In Swedish with English subtitles and very interesting to watch no matter how old you are or where you come from.