Forever

Jul 7, 2022

1h 46m

★ 7.9

Overview

When married couple Egon and Maren lose their adult son, their family, which includes their daughter Lily, is paralyzed with grief. As it turns out, the three of them have very different ways of coping with grief and soon find themselves slipping apart. Now the three of them need to find their way back to life and to reconstitute the family.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Zentropa Entertainments

Forever Trailers

Cast

Line

Jette Søndergaard

Maren

Mette Munk Plum

Handlende

Benny Bøtchiær Thomsen

Egon

Ole Sørensen

Sønnen

Lasse Lorenzen

Henrik

Eskil Tonnesen

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