Bent (film)

Movie
German title	Bent
Original title	Bent
Country of production	Great Britain
original language	English
Publishing year	1997
length	108 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Sean Mathias
script	Martin Sherman
production	Michael Solinger , ; Dixie Linder
music	Philip Glass
camera	Yorgos Arvanitis
cut	Isabelle Lorente
occupation
	Clive Owen as Max; Lothaire Bluteau as Horst; Ian McKellen as Uncle Freddie; Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as a wolf; Mick Jagger as Greta / George; Jude Law as a storm troop soldier; Rupert Graves as an officer on the train;

Bent is a British movie from 1997 about two concentration camp prisoners who fall in love in the concentration camp and live out their love - despite the external circumstances.

action

The film first deals with the homosexual Max (Clive Owen). He made his way through life in the Berlin of the 30s with the drug trade and let himself be endured by his friend, the dancer Rudi. Both were arrested during the so-called Röhmputsch . On the way to the Dachau concentration camp , Max does everything to not get the pink triangle , but a yellow Star of David. He even goes so far that he kills his friend on the orders of the platoon officer.

In the camp, Max meets Horst, who proudly wears the pink triangle. Between the daily chicane, the two fall in love, although they are neither allowed to touch nor speak to each other.
One day, Horst is shot by an SS soldier when he refuses to carry out the order to throw himself into a high-voltage fence. Max can't get over having lost a friend and lover again. Before he carries out the order to bury Horst, he swaps his jacket with the Jewish star for that of his dead lover and thus marks himself as a homosexual. After he buried Horst, Max throws himself into the high-voltage fence.

background

This film is a film adaptation of the play of the same name , which premiered in London in 1979 . In the film, on the one hand, the extermination of the Jews in the Third Reich is dealt with in a haunting manner , on the other hand, the persecution of homosexuals is taken up. Of the estimated 10,000 to 15,000 gays imprisoned in the concentration camp on the basis of Section 175 (Criminal Code), around 53% are said to have been murdered. These had in the concentration camps of a so-called " pink triangle to detect and" (a pink triangle) stigma wear.

Reviews

“The first part of the film is a kind of hustle and bustle in decadent Berlin in the 1930s, in which Mick Jagger in particular shines as the aging drag queen Greta. So "she" sings at a performance on the "Streets of Berlin" (Streets of Berlin) . In stark contrast are the scenes in the concentration camp, where dreariness and desolation prevail. This is where the film develops its particular intensity when you get involved in the almost tragic-comic moments between Max and Horst. This film is an important addition to films like Schindler's List , The Downfall or Life is Beautiful . "

Awards (selection)

Torino International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 1998

Best feature film

Cannes Film Festival 1997

Award of the Youth

Web links

Bent in the Internet Movie Database (English)