Love Is Only a Word
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.
Plot
21-year-old Oliver Mansfeld, the son of a corrupt industrialist, is attending a boarding school in order to obtain a school leaving degree, which he failed to do in his younger years. 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 turbulent 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
- as Kommissar Hardenberg
- Holger Hagen as Dr. Haberl
- Inge Langen as Katharina Mansfeld, Olivers Mutter
- 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