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MONEY
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Shot for just $1.3M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
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Women in Love
"The relationship between four sensual people is limited: They must find a new way."
1969 2h 11m EN
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SOLID
★6.6TMDB · 141
DramaRomance
Synopsis
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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.
“The relationship between four sensual people is limited: They must find a new way.”
Cast
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 Willmer
Mrs. Crich
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Ken Russell
- Writers
- Larry Kramer
- Languages
- German, English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
Want more? Switch to Cinephile mode in the header for DP, composer, budget, box office, production companies, keywords, and release history.
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ERA
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57 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
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WORLD
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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: German, English.
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DIRECTOR
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Directed by Ken Russell, shot by Billy Williams. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
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DIRECTOR
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Original score by Georges Delerue. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
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DIRECTOR
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Editor Michael Bradsell shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
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CAST
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Alan Bates and Oliver Reed and Glenda Jackson carry the top of the cast.
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FACT
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Marketing tagline: "The relationship between four sensual people is limited: They must find a new way.".
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Cinephile deep dive
The take
Ken Russell directs. Billy Williams behind the camera. Georges Delerue scores. Michael Bradsell cuts. Produced in United Kingdom. Dialogue in German, English.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Shot for just $1.3M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
- 257 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
- 3Dialogue crosses 2 languages: German, English.
- 4Directed by Ken Russell, shot by Billy Williams. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
- 5Original score by Georges Delerue. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
- 6Editor Michael Bradsell shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
- 7Alan Bates and Oliver Reed and Glenda Jackson carry the top of the cast.
- 8Marketing tagline: "The relationship between four sensual people is limited: They must find a new way.".
- 9IMDB entry: tt0066579 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 10Classified under 34 themes, including "new love", "based on novel or book", "platonic love", "male friendship".
The technical file
- Cinematography
- Billy Williams
- Original score
- Georges Delerue
- Editing
- Michael Bradsell
- Costume design
- Shirley Russell
- Makeup / hair
- A. G. Scott
- Runtime
- 131 min · 2h 11m
- Aspect ratio (typical)
- 1.37:1 (Academy)
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $1,250,000
- Original language
- EN
- Certification (US)
- R
Awards
- National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
- Academy Award for Best Actress
Individual records documented via Wikidata; the summary above may count more.
Also by
Ken Russell
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Selected frames
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Trailers & featurettes
Watch the pieces
Production companies
Who made it
Brandywine Productions
US
Key crew
- ProducerLarry Kramer
- NovelD. H. Lawrence
- EditorMichael Bradsell
- Costume DesignShirley Russell
- Assistant EditorStuart Baird
- HairdresserA. G. Scott
- Co-ProducerMartin Rosen
- Associate ProducerRoy Baird
- Set DesignerLuciana Arrighi
- Art DirectionKenneth Jones
- Still PhotographerDavid James
Themes & keywords
What it's about, really
- new love
- based on novel or book
- platonic love
- male friendship
- loss of virginity
- sexual freedom
- tragic love
- post world war i
- mining town
- alps mountains
- sexual awakening
- woman in bed
- woman drowned
- sculptor
- 1920s
- sexual politics
- searching for love
- interclass romance
- sexual attitudes
- young lovers
- british class system
- sister sister relationship
- simulated sex
- one love
- woman falls in love
- erotic romance
- nude wrestling
- sincere
- modernist
- nude male
- philosophical debate
- bohemian artist
- suicide by hypothermia
- drowned lovers
Release history · US
When it landed
- Theatrical1970-03-25R
Also known as
International titles
- Mujeres enamoradasES
- Kvinner som elskerNO
