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'Language of Love' is a 1969 Swedish sex educational film directed by Torgny Wickman. It was an international success.

It gained publicity when 30,000 people gathered on Trafalgar Square in London to protest against a nearby movie theatre showing it, one of the protesters being pop singer Cliff Richard. Lord Longford and Raymond Blackburn decided to pursue a matter of pornography classification for the film Language of Love into the Court of Appeal and lost the writ of mandamus against the Police Commissioner, who had refused to intrude upon the British Board of Film Classification remit.Reported as [1973] 1 Q.B. 241 (C.A.)

United States customs were known to have confiscated copies of the film. Following such events, it was marketed as a sexploitation film of the "white coater" variety in some places a pornographic film masquerading as a documentary or scientific film.

The film had two sequels, 'Mera ur krlekens sprk' in 1970 and 'Krlekens XYZ' in 1971. In 1973 the three films were edited together into a new film, 'Det bsta ur Krlekens sprk-filmerna' ("The Best from the 'Language of Love' Films").

'Mera ur krlekens sprk' ('More from the Language of Love') had equally successful box office though it dealt more with alternate sexuality and lifestyles and also with the disabled.

Remakes of the first two films appeared in 2004 ('Krlekens sprk' a.k.a. 'Krlekens sprk 2000') and in 2009 ('Mera ur krlekens sprk'), both directed by Anders Lennberg.

The film included split screen visions of couples having sex with Ravel's Bolero playing in the background.

Cast



* Inge Hegeler

* Sten Hegeler

* Maj-Briht Bergstrm-Walan

* Sture Cullhed

* Barbro Hiort af Orns

* Stig Johanson

* Gthe Grefbo

* Gsta Krantz

* Julie Bernby

* Brje Nyberg

* Lennart Lindberg

* Margaretha Henriksson

* Conny Ling

References




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