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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 · The story involves a Berlin homosexual named Max (Clive Owen), who is swept up in the Nazi madness, forced to kill his lover, sent to a prison camp, and there finds true love with another man. Max has lied to qualify for a yellow star (signifying he is Jewish) instead of a pink one (homosexual).
Bent: Directed by Sean Mathias. 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
No person who is knowledgeable about the Holocaust can ever claim that without seeing Bent. The play which opened in 1979 in London is about those all too forgotten victims of the Holocaust, the gay people of Europe.
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
Jul 28, 2015 · Moisés Kaufman’s muscular revival of “Bent,” which opened Sunday at the Mark Taper Forum, renders what many had written off as a parochial drama about the persecution of homosexuals in Nazi ...
Dec 1, 1997 · After almost 20 years, a harrowing, potent film has been made from the acclaimed, award-winning, groundbreaking 1979 play Bent , about Hitler's savage persecution of gays in Nazi Berlin.
