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Women in Love

Women in Love

The relationship between four sensual people is limited: They must find a new way.

19696.62h 11m

Overview

Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a wealthy playboy and a philosophical educator, with cataclysmic results for all four.

Directed by Ken Russell
Written by Larry Kramer, D. H. Lawrence
Produced by Larry Kramer
Box OfficeBudget: $1.3M0

Top Cast

Alan Bates

Alan Bates

Rupert Birkin

Oliver Reed

Oliver Reed

Gerald Crich

Glenda Jackson

Glenda Jackson

Gudrun Brangwen

Jennie Linden

Jennie Linden

Ursula Brangwen

Eleanor Bron

Eleanor Bron

Hermione Roddice

Alan Webb

Alan Webb

Thomas Crich

Vladek Sheybal

Vladek Sheybal

Loerke

Catherine Willmer

Catherine Willmer

Mrs. Crich

Phoebe Nicholls

Phoebe Nicholls

Winifred Crich

Sharon Gurney

Sharon Gurney

Laura Crich

Themes & Keywords

new lovebased on novel or bookplatonic lovemale friendshiploss of virginitysexual freedomtragic lovepost world war imining townalps mountainssexual awakeningwoman in bedwoman drownedsculptor1920ssexual politicssearching for loveinterclass romancesexual attitudesyoung loversbritish class systemsister sister relationshipsimulated sexone lovewoman falls in loveerotic romancenude wrestlingsinceremodernistnude malephilosophical debatebohemian artistsuicide by hypothermiadrowned lovers

About Women in Love

Women in Love is a drama, romance film released in 1969 exploring themes of new love, based on novel or book, platonic love, male friendship, loss of virginity, sexual freedom. Directed by Ken Russell, it stars Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson. Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a wealthy playboy and a philosophical educator, with cataclysmic results for all four.

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