Lust for Love (1967)

Original title

Mahlzeiten

Directed by

Edgar Reitz

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

12

Rating

4.8 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young female photographer and a medical student get married. The film follows the ups and downs of their relationship as a crisis develops.

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What happens

Lust for Love (German: Mahlzeiten, lit. 'Meals') is a 1967 West German drama film directed by Edgar Reitz, starring Heidi Stroh and Georg Hauke. It tells the story of the marriage and subsequent crisis of a young female photographer and a medical student. It was the director's first fiction film and is part of the New German Cinema movement. The film premiered in West Germany on 21 March 1967. It was shown in competition at the 28th Venice International Film Festival, where it won the award for Best First Work. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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