Bent (sometimes stylised as BENT) is a 1979 stage play written by Martin Sherman. It revolves around the persecution of gay people in Nazi Germany, taking place during and after the Night of the Long Knives. The title of the play refers to the slang word "bent" used to refer to homosexuals. When the play was first performed, there was only a trickle of historical research or even awareness about the Nazi persecution of homosexuals. In some regards, the play helped increase that historical research and education in the 1980s and 1990s.
Adaptations (1)
Bent was adapted into a 1997 film.
Bent1997 · film · 105 min · dir. Sean Mathias · IMDb ↗IMDb7.174%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.
