Loving women (film)

Movie
German title	Loving women
Original title	Women in Love
Country of production	United Kingdom
original language	English
Publishing year	1969
length	131 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12 (formerly 18)
Rod
Director	Ken Russell
script	Larry Kramer on the novel Women in Love by DH Lawrence
production	Larry Kramer, Martin Rosen , Roy Beard
music	Georges Delerue
camera	Billy Williams
cut	Michael Bradsell
occupation
Alan Bates : Rupert Birkin Oliver Reed : Gerald Crich Glenda Jackson : Gudrun Brangwen Jennie Linden : Ursula Brangwen Eleanor Bron : Hermione Roddice Alan Webb : Thomas Crich Vladek Sheybal : Loerke Catherine Wilmer : Mrs. Crich Phoebe Nicholls : Winifred Crich Sharon Gurney : Laura Crich Christopher Gable : Tibby Lupton Michael Gough : Tom Brangwen Norma Shebbeare : Mrs. Brangwen Nike Arrighi : Contessa James Laurenson : Minister

Loving Women is a 1969 romantic drama directed by Ken Russell based on the DH Lawrence novel of the same name .

action

The film is about the battle of the sexes and relationships in the elite of the British industrial region Midlands in the 1920s . Gerald Crich and Rupert Berkin are best friends and fall in love with two sisters: Gudrun, a sculptor, and Ursula Brangwen, a school teacher. Rupert marries Ursula, Gerald starts a love affair with Gudrun and they spend their honeymoon in Switzerland together . But relationships take on increasingly different directions as director Russell explores the nature of commitment and love. Rupert and Ursula learn to surrender to one another; the rather reserved Gerald finally cannot establish a relationship with the demanding and demanding Gudrun.

Awards

At the 1971 Academy Awards , Glenda Jackson received the Academy Award for Best Actress , while Ken Russell was nominated for Best Director , Billy Williams for Best Cinematography and Larry Kramer for Best Adapted Screenplay .

In addition to winning the Golden Globe Award for best English-language foreign film in 1971, Glenda Jackson also won the National Board of Review (NBR), National Society of Film Critics and New York Film Critics Circle awards for best actress. In addition, the film was nominated for eleven British Film Awards and several other awards in 1970.

criticism

The Lexicon of International Films found that the act of loving women “reveals ideological and psychological currents that are still relevant today. But] Russell's film largely owes the artistic shaping. "

For Cinema , the film was the “provocative film adaptation of a taboo work”.

Web links

• Women in Love in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 5. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 2274.
2. ↑ See cinema.de