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Bent
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. But it takes a relationship with an openly gay prisoner to teach Max that without the love of another, life is not worth living.
1997 · Directed by Sean Mathias · 105 min · Drama · History · Romance · 11 frames
Tagline
In a time of war, they found themselves in the most dangerous place of all. In love.
Crew
- Screenplay: Martin Sherman
- Cinematography: Giorgos Arvanitis
- Edited by: Isabelle Lorente
- Music: Philip Glass
- Production design: Stephen Brimson Lewis
- Produced by: Dixie Linder, Michael Solinger
Cast
- Lothaire Bluteau as Horst
- Clive Owen as Max
- Brian Webber as Rudy
- Ian McKellen as Uncle Freddie
- Mick Jagger as Greta / George
- Paul Bettany as Captain
- Paul Kynman as Corporal
- Rupert Graves as Officer on Train
- Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Wolf
- Jude Law as Stormtrooper
Production
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Studios: ASK Kodansha, NDF, Channel Four Films, Arts Council of England
- Box office: $496,059
- Themes: nazi, concentration camp prisoner, based on play or musical, gay theme, bitter
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