Help Me, My Love | |
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Directed by | Alberto Sordi |
Written by | Rodolfo Sonego Alberto Sordi Tullio Pinelli |
Produced by | Gianni Hecht Lucari |
Starring | Alberto Sordi Monica Vitti |
Cinematography | Carlo Di Palma |
Edited by | Franco Fraticelli |
Music by | Piero Piccioni |
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Language | Italian |
Help Me, My Love (Italian : Amore mio aiutami) is a 1969 Commedia all'italiana film written, directed and starred by Alberto Sordi. [1] [2] [3]
Giovanni and Raffaella have been happily married for ten years, but their relationship goes into crisis when Raffaella falls in love with Valerio Mantovani, a handsome forty-year-old man she met at the chamber music concerts she attends weekly with her mother.
Sordi and Vitti were the previous season's biggest box office stars in Italy and the film was the number one film in Rome in its opening weekend, grossing $18,500. [4]
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