''Mera ur kärlekens språk'' (aka ''More from the Language of Love'' and ''More about the Language of Love'', also released as ''Language of Love 2'') is a 1970
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sex
educational film
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directed by Torgny Wickman. It is a sequel to the 1969 film ''
Language of Love
''Language of Love'' () 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 ...
'' and had a sequel in 1971, ''
Kärlekens XYZ
''Kärlekens XYZ'' ("The XYZ of Love") is a 1971 Swedish sex educational film directed by Torgny Wickman. It is a sequel to the two films ''Language of Love'' (1969) and ''Mera ur kärlekens språk'' (1970). In 1973 the three films were edited toge ...
''. 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").
The film dealt more with alternative sexuality and life styles and the disabled but was equally successful financially as ''Language of Love''.
As with its predecessor, the film was initially refused a UK cinema certificate in 1972 by the
BBFC
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. It was eventually passed with 3 minutes of cuts for theatrical release under the title ''Language of Love 2'' in February 1983 and again for video in 1987. It was finally passed uncut in 2009 as part of a 3 DVD set entitled ''Swedish Erotica''.
A Swedish sex education film with the same title, directed by Anders Lennberg, was made in 2009.
Cast
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Maj-Briht Bergström-Walan
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Education and career
Maj-Briht Bergström-Walan studied as a midwife in the mid-1940s a ...
* Inge Hegeler
* Sten Hegeler
* Bertil Hansson
* Johan Wallin
* Bengt Lindqvist
* Bengt Berggren
* Bruno Kaplan
* Tommy Hedlund
* Anna Berggren
* Mirjam Israel
* Ove Alström
* Göran Bergstrand
* Curt H:son Nilsson
* Lars Lennartsson
* Suzanne Hovinder
* Mogens Jacobsen
* Rune Pär Olofsson
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Annakarin Svedberg
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Career
Svedberg was born in 1934 in Halmstad, and moved to Malmö with her family in 1941.
Svedberg's ...
* Wenche Willumsen
* Lars Ljungberg
* Helena Rohde
* Bent Rohweder
* Lasse Lundberg
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1970 films
Swedish erotic films
1970s Swedish-language films
Swedish LGBT-related films
Sexploitation films
Documentary films about sexuality
Swedish documentary films
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1970 documentary films
1970 LGBT-related films
1970s Swedish films
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