- Charles London20 maj 2025The forgotten victims of the Holocaust, the "pink triangles", are the main characters in this movie that is basically a 3-act screenplay. In the first act, we get the flavor of Berlin in 1934, just before and after the Night of the Long Knives. Here, Mick Jaggar is brilliantly cast as a transvestite performer. The second (and best) act takes place on a train to Dachau. It is raw and intense. The third act, the concentration camp, evokes empathy but, at times, borderlines on tedium. The flow of the film becomes disrupted by protracted scenes of rock moving, a cruel and unusual form of punishment designed to torture and humiliate homosexual prisoners. Had these scenes been more tidy, perhaps the movie would have been stronger down the stretch. Instead, it peaks in the middle. Although imperfect, this mostly watchable film puts an important spotlight on Hitler's "other" diabolic obsession. I never get mad at a good history lesson.
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Bent was released on 4 oktober 1997.
Bent was directed by Sean Mathias.
Bent has a runtime of 1h 44m.
Bent was produced by Dixie Linder, Michael Solinger.
Max och Rudy vistas på de homosexuellas underjordiska klubbar i nazitidens Tyskland. De grips och skickas till koncentrationsläger. Under resan misshandlas Rudy av nazistiska soldater som även tvingar Max att medverka till Rudys död. I lägret där homosexuella utsätts för förföljelse inser Max att det finns grader i helvetet. Mot sin vilja dras han dock till en annan homosexuell man i lägret...
The key characters in Bent are Horst (Lothaire Bluteau), Max (Clive Owen), Rudy (Brian Webber).
Bent is rated 15.
Bent is a Drama, Historisk, Romantik film.
Bent has an audience rating of 7.6 out of 10.
Bent has made 496 tn US$ at the box office.