The Secret Friend
1990, Swedish. Directed by Marie-Louise Ekman.
A woman humiliates and shouts at her husband, before she ties him up and disappears. He frees himself and calls a friend who comes over. He tries to tell the friend how his wife treats him but the friend does not seem to understand or accept what he is saying. The man then puts on his wife’s negligee and suggest a role-play in order for the friend to understand better. The man plays his wife while the friend plays the man. After a while they switch roles. Later the wife returns with a male friend, a psychologist, to find her husband and his friend in female attire.
- Runtime
- 1h 19m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Swedish
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- Released
- 30 March 1990
- Original title
- Den hemliga vännen
- Country
- Sweden
- Written by
- Marie-Louise Ekman
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The Secret Friend runs 79 minutes (1h 19m).
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The Secret Friend isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 30 March 1990. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Secret Friend?
The Secret Friend (1990) was directed by Marie-Louise Ekman and stars Carl Billquist, Gösta Ekman, Ernst-Hugo Järegård.