Love Is Only a Word

StarringCinematographyCharly SteinbergerEdited byJutta HeringMusic byErich FerstlDistributed byConstantin Film111 minutesCountryWest GermanyLanguageGerman

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

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