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Bent(1997)
Status: Released
Date: 1997-11-26
68%
147 Votes
Time: 1h 45m
In a time of war, they found themselves in the most dangerous place of all. In love.
Overview:
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.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United Kingdom
Revenue: $496,059.00
ProductionCompanies: 
ASK Kodansha
NDF Inc.
Movie: Bent
Top 10 Billed Cast
Lothaire Bluteau
Horst
Clive Owen
Max
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
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