The Boys from St. Petri

The Boys from St. Petri
Directed bySøren Kragh-Jacobsen
Written bySøren Kragh-Jacobsen
Bjarne Reuter
Produced byMads Egmont Christensen
Hedda Craner
Bent Fabricius-Bjerre
StarringTomas Villum Jensen
Nikolaj Lie Kaas
CinematographyDan Laustsen
Edited byLeif Axel Kjeldsen
Distributed byNordisk Film
Release date
  • 11 October 1991 (1991-10-11)
Running time
111 minutes
CountryDenmark
LanguageDanish

The Boys from St. Petri (Danish: Drengene fra Sankt Petri) is a 1991 Danish drama film directed by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen. It was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.[1] The film is inspired by the activities of the Churchill Club, but the actual plot is fiction. It is based on Bjarne Reuter's book Drengene fra Sankt Petri.[2] It has been published in English as Boys from St. Petri.[3]

  1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Boys from St. Petri". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 16 August 2009.
  2. ^ Reuter, Bjarne (2013). Drengene fra Sankt Petri. Gyldendal. ISBN 978-87-02-14465-9.
  3. ^ Reuter, Bjarne B. (1996). Boys from St. Petri. Turtleback Books. ISBN 978-0-7857-7851-6.