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Love Is Only a Word
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Wikipedia article
'Love Is Only a Word' is a 1971 West German drama film directed by Alfred Vohrer and starring Judy Winter, Herbert Fleischmann and Malte Thorsten.Bock & Bergfelder p.504
=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 Hffer 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 as Kommissar Hardenberg
* Holger Hagen as Dr. Haberl
* Inge Langen as Katharina Mansfeld, Olivers Mutter
* Dieter Wagner as Deutschlehrer
* Ossi Eckmller as Zollbeamter
* Gretl Schrg as Pflegerin
* Elisabeth Volkmann as Angenforts Sekretrin
* Franz Rudnick as Kasilowski
* Frank Sssenguth as Pilot Teddy Behnke
References
Bibliography
* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. 'The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema'. Berghahn Books, 2009.
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