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Bent is a 1997 British-Japanese drama film directed by Sean Mathias, based on the 1979 play of the same name by Martin Sherman, who also wrote the screenplay. It revolves around the persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany after the murder of SA leader Ernst Röhm on the Night of the Long Knives.
Nov 26, 1997 · With Mick Jagger, Clive Owen, Brian Webber, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. In 1930s Berlin, a gay Jew is sent to a concentration camp under the Nazi regime.
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- Drama, History, Romance
- Sean Mathias
- 1997-11-26
Jan 17, 2019 · Inside the camp, Max finds the will to survive through the help of a fellow prisoner, Horst (Lothaire Bluteau), and the two men develop an unbreakable bond. Director: Sean Mathias Writers: Martin...
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- 46.9K
- Film Movement
Nov 26, 1997 · "Bent" is a movie very much about entertaining its audience (I have not seen the stage play by Martin Sherman, who wrote the screenplay). It opens with a gay orgy, hosted by the transvestite Greta ( Mick Jagger ), where bodies are strewn about in sexual congress.
In 1930s Berlin, homosexual Max (Clive Owen) sleeps with German officer Wolf (Nikolaj Waldau), only to see him killed by his fellow Nazis the next morning. Fleeing with his boyfriend, Rudy (Brian...
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- Sean Mathias
- NC-17
- Clive Owen
Nov 26, 1997 · Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish because in the eyes of the Nazis, gays are the lowest form of human being.
Bent is a film directed by Sean Mathias with Clive Owen, Lothaire Bluteau, Ian McKellen, Mick Jagger .... Year: 1997. Original title: Bent. Synopsis: Sean Mathias directed this screen adaptation of Martin Sherman's award-winning play about the persecution of homosexuals by Nazis during World War II. In Germany, the Nazi party's program of ...
