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Overview

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7.1/10   2,600 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Martin Sherman (play)
Martin Sherman (screenplay)
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Release Date:
26 November 1997 (USA) more
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Plot:
Max is gay and as such is sent to Dachau concentration camp under the Nazi regime. He tries to deny... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
4 wins & 2 nominations more
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If you didn't like it, you shouldn't be watching movies like this more (55 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Clive Owen ... Max

Lothaire Bluteau ... Horst

Ian McKellen ... Uncle Freddie

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau ... Wolf (as Nikolaj Waldau)

Mick Jagger ... Greta / George

Brian Webber ... Rudy

Jude Law ... Stormtrooper
Gresby Nash ... Waiter
Suzanne Bertish ... Half-woman, half-man
David Meyer ... Gestapo man
Stefan Marling ... SS Captain

Richard Laing ... SS guard

Crispian Belfrage ... SS guard
Johanna Kirby ... Muttering woman

David Phelan ... Fluff in park
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MPAA:
Rated NC-17 for a strong scene of graphic sexuality.; Rated R for strong sexuality including explicit sexual dialogue, some brutal violence, language and drug use. (edited version)
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105 min
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Trivia:
Ian McKellen, who appears as Uncle Freddie in the film, starred in the role of Max in the original London West End theatre production in 1979. more
Quotes:
Gestapo man: Here you will work here.
Horst: Yes sir.
Gestapo man: He'll explain.
Horst: Yes sir.
Gestapo man: I'm watching.
Horst: Yes sir.
Gestapo man: I see everything.
Horst: Yes sir.
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Soundtrack:
STREETS OF BERLIN more

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15 out of 24 people found the following comment useful.
If you didn't like it, you shouldn't be watching movies like this, 24 October 1999
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Author: Weston Clark

This movie was not a high budget movie, and you can tell. But what makes a movie? Not its high budget. The story and the characters make a movie, and this one had it. How brave of a group to go into this very untouched piece of history and show it so elegantly. While some of the scenes may have seemed a bit cheesy, or stagey as someone said earlier, you need to understand the position these people where in. While making love without touching may seem odd, or weird, that is all they had. That was all the human contact they had. If you can't see that you shouldn't be watching movies like this one.

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