This Special Friendship(Movie, 1964)

Name: This Special Friendship
Genre: Drama, Romance / Love
Released: 1964
Duration: T01:40:00
Rating: 4.2

Original title: "Les Amitiés particulières" (French/FR)

1h 40min | Genres: Drama, Romance / Love

Rating: 4.2/5 (with 32 votes)

Les amitiés particulières (English: Special Friendships) is a 1964 film adaptation of the Roger Peyrefitte novel of the same name, directed by Jean Delannoy. It was released in 1967 with English subtitles as This Special Friendship. It stars Francis Lacombrade and Didier Haudepin as boys at an upper-class Catholic boarding school, whose chaste but intimate friendship is discouraged as sinful by the priests (played by Louis Seigner, Michel Bouquet, and Lucien Nat). ()

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About This Special Friendship

A tale of the tender relationship between a twelve-year-old boy and the fourteen-year-old upperclassman who is the object of his desire, all set within the rigid atmosphere of a Jesuit-run school.

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Additional Information

Production country: France

Based on the work of: Roger Peyrefitte ("Les amitiés particulières")

Made by: Progéfi

Original language: French (FR)

Spoken languages: French (FR)

Translated into 12 languages: Danish (DA), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 11/07/1967 (World premiere: 09/04/1964)

Cast: Michel Bouquet, Louis Seigner, Didier Haudepin, François Leccia, Bernard Musson, Colette Régis, Dominique Collignon-Maurin, Gérard Chambre, Henri Coutet, Lucien Nat

Director: Jean Delannoy

Screenwriter: Jean Aurenche

Film Editor: Louisette Hautecoeur

Director of Photography: Christian Matras

Composer: Jean Prodromidès

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Heimliche Freundschaften"

"As Amizades Particulares"

"悲しみの天使"

Keywords: male homosexuality

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