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.
Cinematography
Billy Williams shoots desire like it's suffocating you.
Acting
Glenda Jackson's Oscar-winning feral intelligence.
Direction
Russell turns D.H. Lawrence into operatic psychodrama.
Director
Ken Russell
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
Phoebe Nicholls
Winifred Crich
Sharon Gurney
Laura Crich
Christopher Gable
Tibby Lupton
Michael Gough
Mr. Brangwen
Niké Arrighi
Contessa
James Laurenson
Minister
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