Bent

1997

35′

Music by Philip Glass

SYNOPSIS:
Max is gay and as such is sent to Dachau concentration camp under the Nazi regime. He tries to deny he is gay and gets a yellow label signifying a Jew instead of pink, branding a homosexual. In camp he falls in love with his fellow prisoner Horst, who wears his pink label with pride.

String Quartet portions of the score are published as “Suite from BENT for String Quartet”