Love Is as Beautiful as Love

Love Is as Beautiful as Love
Directed byKlaus Lemke
Written byKlaus Lemke
Produced byKlaus Lemke
StarringSylvie Winter
Rolf Zacher
Marquard Bohm
CinematographyBernd Fiedler
Edited byPeter Przygodda
Production
company
Silvana Film
Distributed bySilvana Film
Release date
  • 2 September 1971 (1971-09-02)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

Love Is as Beautiful as Love (German: Liebe, so schön wie Liebe) is a 1971 West German comedy film directed by Klaus Lemke and starring Sylvie Winter, Rolf Zacher and Marquard Bohm.[1] Location shooting took place around Munich.[2] It is part of the New German Cinema movement. It premiered at the 1971 Venice Film Festival but didn't go on general release in West Germany until the following year.

Main cast

  • Sylvie Winter as Sylvie
  • Rolf Zacher as Rolf
  • Marquard Bohm as Herr Marquard
  • Isolde Nist as Isolde
  • Bernd Redecker as Bernd
  • Renate Zimmermann as Renate
  • Dietrich Kerky as Dietrich

References

Bibliography

  • Abel, Marco & Fisher, Jaimey (ed.) New German Cinema and Its Global Contexts: A Transnational Art Cinema. Wayne State University Press, 2025.
  • Gerhardt, Christina & Abel, Marco. Celluloid Revolt: German Screen Cultures and the Long 1968. Camden House, 2019.