Love Is Only a Word

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Love Is Only a Word
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Directed by Alfred Vohrer
Screenplay by Manfred Purzer
Based onLove is Just a Word (novel)
by Johannes Mario Simmel
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography Charly Steinberger
Edited by Jutta Hering
Music by Erich Ferstl
Production
company
Distributed by Constantin Film
Release date
  • 12 November 1971 (1971-11-12)
Running time
111 minutes
CountryWest Germany
Language German

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]

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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.

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References

  1. Bock & Bergfelder p.504

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