Love Is Only a Word
1971 film
- Erwin Gitt
- Luggi Waldleitner
- Judy Winter
- Herbert Fleischmann
- Malte Thorsten
Production
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Roxy Film
Release date
- 12 November 1971 (1971-11-12)
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Love Is Only a Word (German: Liebe ist nur ein Wort) is a 1971 West German drama film directed by Alfred Vohrer and starring Judy Winter, Herbert Fleischmann and Malte Thorsten.[1]
Plot
21-year-old Oliver Mansfeld is the son of an industrialist. Belatedly, he tries to complete his abitur in a boarding school. He falls head over heels in love with Verena Angenfort, ten years his senior. However, she is married to a much older banker who does business with Oliver's father. Verena and Oliver begin a violent but short-lived affair. Mansfeld does not see through the web of intrigues and entanglements around him in time and finally commits suicide.
Cast
- Judy Winter as Verena Angenfort
- Herbert Fleischmann as Manfred Angenfort
- Malte Thorsten as Oliver Mansfeld
- Donata Höffer as Geraldine Reber
- Karl Walter Diess as Butler Leo
- Joey Schoenfelder as Hansi
- Konrad Georg as Professor
- Friedrich Siemers as Dr. Florian
- Bernd Redecker as Walter Colland
- Manuel Iregsusi as Raschid
- Friedrich G. Beckhaus [de] as Kommissar Hardenberg
- Holger Hagen as Dr. Haberl
- Inge Langen as Katharina Mansfeld, Olivers Mutter
- Dieter Wagner as Deutschlehrer
- Ossi Eckmüller as Zollbeamter
- Gretl Schörg as Pflegerin
- Elisabeth Volkmann as Angenforts Sekretärin
- Franz Rudnick as Kasilowski
- Frank Süssenguth as Pilot Teddy Behnke
References
- ^ Bock & Bergfelder p.504
Bibliography
- Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
External links
- Love Is Only a Word at IMDb
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