L'amore difficile

L'amore difficile
Directed by	Alberto Bonucci Sergio Sollima Nino Manfredi Luciano Lucignani
Starring	Nino Manfredi Vittorio Gassman
Cinematography	Erico Menczer
Edited by	Eraldo Da Roma
Music by	Piero Umiliani
Release date	24 December 1962 (1962-12-24)
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

L'amore difficile (internationally released as Of Wayward Love and as Sex Can Be Difficult) is a 1962 Italian comedy anthology film. The film represents the directorial debut of the four authors, who were however all experienced in other areas of the film industry (Manfredi and Bonucci as actors, Lucignani and Sollima as writers).^[1] The four episodes are based on short stories by well-known Italian novelists ( Mario Soldati, Alberto Moravia, Italo Calvino and Ercole Patti) and share the themes of love and betrayal.^[2]

The film was co-produced with West Germany where it was released with the title Schwierige Liebe.

Cast

Le donne

• Enrico Maria Salerno: The man
• Catherine Spaak: Valeria
• Claudia Mori: Bruna

(directed by Sergio Sollima)

L'avaro

• Vittorio Gassman: Tullio Monari
• Nadia Tiller: Elena De Gasperis
• Lilla Brignone: Tullio's mother

(directed by Luciano Lucignani)

L'avventura di un soldato

• Nino Manfredi: The soldier
• Fulvia Franco: The widow

(directed by Nino Manfredi)

Il serpente

• Gastone Moschin: The police sergeant
• Bernhard Wicki: Bernhard, the husband
• Lilli Palmer: Hilde, the wife

(directed by Alberto Bonucci)

References

1. Bianco e nero, Volume 24. Centro sperimentale di cinematografia. p. 122.
2. Franca Faldini, Goffredo Fofi. L'Avventurosa storia del cinema italiano raccontata dai suoi protagonisti, 1960-1969. Feltrinelli, 1981.

External links

• L'amore difficile at IMDb