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.
Synopsis
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.
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Cast
Directed by Sean Mathias
Lothaire Bluteau
Horst
Clive Owen
Max
Brian Webber
Rudy
Ian McKellen
Uncle Freddie
Mick Jagger
Greta / George
Paul Bettany
Captain
Paul Kynman
Corporal
Rupert Graves
Officer on Train
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Wolf
Jude Law
Stormtrooper
Richard Laing
SS Guard
Crispian Belfrage
SS Guard
Stefan Marling
SS Captain
Suzanne Bertish
Half-Woman - Half-Man
Gresby Nash
Waiter
David Meyer
Gestapo Man
Production
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Release
1997
Runtime
105 min
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