Help Me, My Love

Help Me, My Love
Theatrical release poster
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
Release date	1969 (1969)
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]

Plot

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.

Cast

• Alberto Sordi as Giovanni Machiavelli
• Monica Vitti as Raffaella
• Silvano Tranquilli as Valerio Mantovani
• Laura Adani as Elena
• Ugo Gregoretti as Michele Parodi
• Mariolina Cannuli as Danila Parodi
• Nestor Garay as Father Bardella
• Karl-Otto Alberty as Bauer

Reception

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]

References

1. Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia; Mario Pecorari. Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 1992. ISBN 8876055932.
2. Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.
3. Gianluca Colitta. Francesco Maselli. Uno sguardo non indifferente. Besa, 2013. ISBN 8849708386.
4. "'Fellini Satyricon' Mighty in Milan". Variety. 15 October 1969. p. 30.

External links

• Help Me, My Love at IMDb