Love Me, Alfredo!

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Love Me, Alfredo!
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Directed by Carmine Gallone
Written by
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography Anchise Brizzi
Edited by
Music by Riccardo Zandonai
Production
company
Grandi Film
Distributed by ICI
Release date
  • 29 September 1940 (1940-09-29)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryItaly
Language Italian

Love Me, Alfredo! (Italian: Amami, Alfredo!) is a 1940 Italian romantic drama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Maria Cebotari, Claudio Gora and Lucie Englisch. [1] It portrays the relationship between an established opera singer and her lover an unknown composer. The title is a reference to Verdi's La Traviata . It was shot at Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Guido Fiorini.

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  1. Nowell-Smith p.57

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