Martin Sherman

Martin Sherman

Nacimiento : 1938-12-22, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Martin Gerald Sherman (born December 22, 1938) is an American dramatist and screenwriter best known for his 20 stage plays which have been produced in over 60 countries. He rose to fame in 1979 with the production of his play Bent, which explores the persecution of homosexuals during the Holocaust. Bent was a Tony nominee for Best Play in 1980 and won the Dramatists Guild's Hull-Warriner Award. It was adapted by Sherman for a major motion picture in 1997 and later by independent sources as a ballet in Brazil. Sherman is an openly gay Jew, and many of his works dramatize "outsiders," dealing with the discrimination and marginalization of minorities whether "gay, female, foreign, disabled, different in religion, class or color." He has lived and worked in London since 1980. Description above from the Wikipedia article Martin Sherman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

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Martin Sherman

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Rose
Rose
Writer
"Rose" is a filmed one-woman theatrical performance. A moving reminder of some of the harrowing events that shaped the century. It remains sadly relevant today as racial tensions escalate, and allegations of antisemitism are rife.
The Empty Plan
The Empty Plan
Pavel
Shifting between documentary, historical reconstruction and melodrama, The Empty Plan interrogates the relationship between theory and practice in the theatre of Bertolt Brecht.
Mrs. Henderson presenta
Mrs. Henderson presenta
Writer
Londres, 1937. Una rica e influyente dama que acaba de quedarse viuda (Judi Dench) y que necesita ocupar su tiempo, decide comprar un viejo teatro londinense con la ayuda de un hábil mánager, Vivian Van Damm, un experto del mundo del espectáculo, a quien desconciertan las maneras excéntricas y poco corteses de la señora Henderson. Van Damm llega a prohibirle asistir a los ensayos debido a sus continuas injerencias, pero ella se disfraza para espiarlo. Esta relación de amor-odio producirá una renovación histórica en el teatro británico. La idea de Van Damm de hacer funcionar el teatro todo el día tiene tal éxito que los demás teatros la copian.
La primavera romana de la Sra. Stone
La primavera romana de la Sra. Stone
Writer
Una actriz en decadencia sufre un duro golpe al morir su marido durante un viaje por Italia. Empieza entonces a relacionarse con gigolós, llegando a obsesionarse con uno de ellos.
Callas Forever
Callas Forever
Screenplay
La cinta hace una invención de los últimos meses de la Gran Diva de la ópera,... retirada en su apartamento de Paris, hasta que un representante musical: Larry Nelly (Jeremy Irons) con el que antaño había trabajado, le propone una nueva aparición estelar. Franco Zeffirelli recrea un ambiente en el que Fanny Ardant demuestra su calidad interpretativa, rodeada de jóvenes como Jay Rodan y el modelo Gabriel Garko muy del estilo Pasolini.
Bent
Bent
Co-Producer
Max (Clive Owen) es gay, y por ese motivo es enviado a Dachau, un campo de concentración bajo el régimen nazi. Max trata de negar su sexualidad y consigue una etiqueta amarilla, reservada para los judíos, en lugar de una rosa, la de los homosexuales. En el campo de concentración se enamora de Horst (Lothaire Bluteau), quien con orgullo lleva su etiqueta rosa.
Bent
Bent
Theatre Play
Max (Clive Owen) es gay, y por ese motivo es enviado a Dachau, un campo de concentración bajo el régimen nazi. Max trata de negar su sexualidad y consigue una etiqueta amarilla, reservada para los judíos, en lugar de una rosa, la de los homosexuales. En el campo de concentración se enamora de Horst (Lothaire Bluteau), quien con orgullo lleva su etiqueta rosa.
Bent
Bent
Screenplay
Max (Clive Owen) es gay, y por ese motivo es enviado a Dachau, un campo de concentración bajo el régimen nazi. Max trata de negar su sexualidad y consigue una etiqueta amarilla, reservada para los judíos, en lugar de una rosa, la de los homosexuales. En el campo de concentración se enamora de Horst (Lothaire Bluteau), quien con orgullo lleva su etiqueta rosa.
Alive and Kicking
Alive and Kicking
Writer
A passionately committed young dancer is forced to re-examine his career and life when faced with death, finding hope through an older man who becomes his lover, mentor and companion.
Alive and Kicking
Alive and Kicking
Man at Pub
A passionately committed young dancer is forced to re-examine his career and life when faced with death, finding hope through an older man who becomes his lover, mentor and companion.
The Summer House
The Summer House
Writer
Margaret (Lena Headey) is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish neighbor Syl Monro (David Threlfall). Both bride- and groom-to-be still live with their mothers in the humdrum suburb of Croydon. However Margaret has been acting strangely ever since a vacation in Egypt, where she stayed with her mother's friend Marie-Claire (Catherine Schell). She secretly despises Syl, but does not resist when her mother Monica (Julie Walters), who has repressed the failure of her own matrimony, insists on marriage for the sake of social convention.