House of Boys
It is 1984. Frank is a determined English teenager who runs away from high school to find an alternative gay lifestyle in Amsterdam. He finds a home and a job at the "House of Boys", a bar-cum-brothel run by a strict Madame who has an eye for what his punters crave. Frank works his way up from barman to on-stage dancer and falls in love with some of his housemates, Jake. The first intimations of what is described as 'the gay cancer', casts a long shadow over Frank's tight-knit group of friends. Yet despite the troubles that cloud the hopes and dreams of young Frank, his perseverance, along with support from a willing doctor, will carry him through.

Main Cast
Layke Anderson
Layke Anderson is an English filmmaker and former actor, known for "Dylan's Room" (2012), "Mankind" (2019) and "Happy Thoughts" (2014).
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Benn Northover
Benn Northover is an English film and television actor. After high school he studied art and film before moving to New York in the USA to study drama at The Stella Adler Studio.
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Udo Kier
Udo Kierspe (born October 14, 1944), known professionally as Udo Kier, is a German actor. Known primarily as a character actor, Kier has appeared in more than 220 films in both leading and supporting roles throughout Europe, Canada and the Americas. He has collaborated with acclaimed filmmakers such as Lars von Trier, Gus van Sant, Werner Herzog, Walerian Borowczyk, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Dario Argento, Charles Matton, Guy Maddin, Alexander Payne, and Paul Morrissey. Description above from the Wikipedia article Udo Kier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Stephen Fry
Stephen John Fry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter and film director, and a director of Norwich City Football Club. He first came to attention in the 1981 Cambridge Footlights Revue presentation "The Cellar Tapes", which also included Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Tony Slattery. With Hugh Laurie, as the comedy double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry & Laurie, and the duo also played the title roles in Jeeves and Wooster. As a solo actor, Fry played the lead in the film Wilde, was Melchett in the BBC television series Blackadder, starred as the title character Peter Kingdom in the ITV series Kingdom, and is the host of the quiz show QI. He also presented a 2008 television series Stephen Fry in America, which saw him travelling across all 50 U.S. states in six episodes. Fry has a recurring guest role as Dr. Gordon Wyatt on the Fox crime series Bones. Apart from his work in television, Fry has contributed columns and articles for newspapers and magazines, and has written four novels and two volumes of autobiography, Moab Is My Washpot and The Fry Chronicles. He also appears frequently on BBC Radio 4, starring in the comedy series Absolute Power, being a frequent guest on panel games such as Just a Minute, and acting as chairman for I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, where he was one of a trio of hosts who succeeded the late Humphrey Lyttelton. Fry is also known in the UK for his audiobook recordings, including as reader for all seven Harry Potter novels.
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Chris McHallem
Born in 1960, Christopher McHallem is a British actor, writer, musician and director who began his career in 1977 with the punk rock/post-punk band the Transmitters under the pseudonym "Dexter O'Brian". He left the band shortly after its formation to pursue a career in acting and his best known role is arguably that of roadie Rod Norman in the BBC soap opera EastEnders from 1987 to 1990.
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Vicky Krieps
Vicky Krieps (born October 4, 1983) is a Luxembourgish-German actress. She has appeared in a number of American, Luxembourgish, French and German productions. Krieps' breakthrough role was in Paul Thomas Anderson's Academy Award-winning film Phantom Thread (2017). Krieps early films include Hanna (2011), Two Lives (2012), and A Most Wanted Man (2013). She also appeared in The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018), The Last Vermeer (2019), and Old (2021). She gained critical attention for her performances in Bergman Island (2021), and Hold Me Tight (2021). She received a Cannes Film Festival Award and European Film Award for her performance in Corsage (2022).
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Michael KĂ¼hl
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Elias McConnell
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Elias Comfort McConnell (born 1985) is an American actor from Portland, Oregon. He has performed on Gus Van Sant's Columbine-based film Elephant, which was awarded the Palme d'Or prize in 2003. Since Elephant, Elias has worked on Paris, je t'aime (2006) as Elie (segment "Le Marais") directed by Gus Van Sant, and in House of Boys as Hippie Boy, by Jean-Claude Schlim. Elias enjoys photography, writing, and singing/song writing. He has also done modelling for several fashion magazines. Elias was born in Portland, Oregon, his parents are Mark and Julie McConnell. Elias is one of 9 children and has 4 brothers and 4 sisters. He has two older sisters Evelyn McConnell and Amanda McConnell and has 6 younger siblings Nate McConnell, Chris McConnell, Danielle McConnell, Matthew McConnell, Natalie McConnell and Joseph McConnell. Description above from the Wikipedia article Elias McConnell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Paul Rockenbrod
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Movie Details
Production Info
- Director:
- Jean-Claude Schlim
- Writer:
- Jean-Claude Schlim
- Production:
- Delux Productions, Elsani Film, Moonstone Entertainment
- Budget:
- $2,500,000
Key Crew
- Co-Producer:
- Anita Elsani
- Associate Producer:
- Ernst Etchie Stroh
- Associate Producer:
- Ahmed Abounouom
- Producer:
- Jimmy de Brabant
- Executive Producer:
- Jean-Claude Schlim
Locations and Languages
- Country:
- DE; LU
- Filming:
- LU; DE
- Languages:
- en