Bent

Renowned British stage director Sean Matthias directs Martin Sherman's powerful and provocative (The New York Times), groundbreaking screenplay about one man's struggle to maintain dignity while imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp. Featuring exceptional performances from Lothaire Bluteau (The Black Robe), Clive Owen (Close My Eyes), Brian Webber, Ian McKellen (Gods And Monsters) and Mick Jagger, Bent earns its place in cultural history (The New York Times) as something that will grab filmgoers by the heart (Rex Reed). Max (Owen) is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Pursued and captured, Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish--because gays, in the eyes of the Nazis, are the lowest form of humanity. But it takes a forbidden relationship with an openly gay prisoner to teach Max that without the love of another, life is not worth living.