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For My Brother (2014)
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Original name: For Min Brors Skyld
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Denmark
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The two brothers Aske (17 years old) and Bastian (12 years old) live with their father, Lasse. Their mother died seven years earlier. Every day they live in a world where fear, violence and alcohol are huge factors, but where the brothers' strong and close relationship means everything. Aske's fight for survival means that he has to serve his father's sexual needs, which include abuse from the father, but also from paying customers and the father's friend Hans (who has a lot of contacts in the pedophile environment). Aske tries everything to keep his little brother out of it all so that he won't experience the same as himself. But one day Bastian is abused by their father and Aske's entire world is about to fall apart. The brothers choose to move to Norway, far away in the beautiful mountains. Their friendship outshines everything! They are together and far away from their evil father...
Style:
rough, disturbing, touching, suspense, independent film, psychological horror
Plot:
brother brother relationship, child prostitution, child abuse, brothers, sexual perversion, human trafficking, pedophilia, nude boy, mistreatment, boy, incest, father son relationship, rape, prostitution, homosexual rape, male rape, pedophile, masturbation, lgbt, lgbt teen, life is a bitch, boyhood, deadbeat dad, teenage sexuality, sex with teenager ...
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Duration: 86 min.
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Story:
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