Language of Love
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Directed by | Torgny Wickman |
Screenplay by | Inge Hegeler Sten Hegeler Torgny Wickman |
Produced by | Inge Ivarson |
Cinematography | Max Wilén |
Edited by | Carl-Olov Skeppstedt |
Music by | Mats Olsson |
Release date |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
Country | Sweden |
Language | Swedish |
Budget | SEK 700,000 (estimated) |
Box office | SEK 7,083,000 (Sweden) (sub-total) |
Language of Love (Swedish: Ur kärlekens språk) is a 1969 Swedish sex educational film directed by Torgny Wickman. It was an international success.
It gained publicity when 30,000 people gathered on Trafalgar Square in London to protest against a nearby movie theatre showing it, one of the protesters being pop singer Cliff Richard.[1] Lord Longford and Raymond Blackburn decided to pursue a matter of pornography classification for the film Language of Love[2] into the Court of Appeal and lost the writ of mandamus against the Police Commissioner, who had refused to intrude upon the British Board of Film Classification remit.[3][4][5] United States customs were known to have confiscated copies of the film.[citation needed] Following such events, it was marketed as a sexploitation film of the "white coater" variety in some places[which?] – a pornographic film masquerading as a documentary or scientific film.
The film had two sequels, Mera ur kärlekens språk in 1970[6] and Kärlekens XYZ in 1971.[7] In 1973 the three films were edited together into a new film, Det bästa ur Kärlekens språk-filmerna ("The Best from the Language of Love Films").[8]
Mera ur kärlekens språk (More from the Language of Love) had equally successful box office though it dealt more with alternate sexuality and lifestyles and also with the disabled.[citation needed]
Remakes of the first two films appeared in 2004 (Kärlekens språk a.k.a. Kärlekens språk 2000) and in 2009 (Mera ur kärlekens språk), both directed by .
The film included split screen visions of couples having sex with Ravel's Bolero playing in the background.
Cast[]
- Inge Hegeler
- Sten Hegeler
- Maj-Briht Bergström-Walan
- Sture Cullhed
- Barbro Hiort af Ornäs
- Stig Johanson
- Göthe Grefbo
- Gösta Krantz
- Julie Bernby
- Börje Nyberg
- Lennart Lindberg
- Margaretha Henriksson
- Conny Ling
References[]
- ^ Ekeroth, Daniel (2011). Swedish Sensationsfilms: A Clandestine History of Sex, Thrillers, and Kicker Cinema. Bazillion Points. ISBN 978-0-9796163-6-5.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "K" (part 2)
- ^ "Raymond Blackburn". The Herald. 5 November 1991. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
- ^ "(1975) 21 McGill L.J. 269: "Private Prosecutions in Canada: The Law and a Proposal for Change" (Burns)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 May 2014. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
- ^ Reported as [1973] 1 Q.B. 241 (C.A.)
- ^ "Mera ur Kärlekens språk (1970)". Swedish Film Database (in Swedish). Retrieved 29 February 2012.
- ^ "Kärlekens XYZ (1971)". Swedish Film Database (in Swedish). Retrieved 29 February 2012.
- ^ "Det bästa ur Kärlekens språk-filmerna (1973)". Swedish Film Database (in Swedish). Retrieved 29 February 2012.
External links[]
- 1969 films
- Swedish-language films
- Swedish films
- Swedish documentary films
- Sexuality in Sweden
- Sexploitation films
- 1969 documentary films
- Documentary films about sexuality
- Sexual revolution