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Bent

Where:

🇩🇪 Germany

When:

The 1930s

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.

Released in 1997 — 105 minutes

Genres:

Drama History Romance

Language:

English