''Help Me, My Love'' () is a 1969

Commedia all'italiana ''Commedia all'italiana'' () or Italian-style comedy is an Italian film genre born in Italy in the 1950s and developed in the 1960s and 1970s. It is widely considered to have started with Mario Monicelli's ''Big Deal on Madonna Street'' in 1958 ...

film written, directed and starred by

Alberto Sordi Alberto Sordi (15 June 1920 – 24 February 2003) was an Italian actor, comedian, voice dubber, director, singer, composer and screenwriter. Sordi is considered one of the most important actors in the history of Italian cinema and one of the b ...

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

as Giovanni Machiavelli *

Monica Vitti Maria Luisa Ceciarelli (3 November 1931 – 2 February 2022), known professionally as Monica Vitti, was an Italian actress who starred in several award-winning films directed by Michelangelo Antonioni during the 1960s. She appeared with Marcel ...

as Raffaella *

Silvano Tranquilli Silvano Tranquilli (23 August 1925 – 10 May 1997) was an Italian stage, television and film actor. Life and career Born in Rome, Silvano Tranquilli attended theatre lessons at the Sharoff Academy, and started his stage activity with the th ...

as Valerio Mantovani * Laura Adani as Elena *

Ugo Gregoretti Ugo Gregoretti (28 September 1930 – 5 July 2019) was an Italian film, television and stage director, actor, screenwriter, author and television host. He directed 20 films during his career. Biography Born in Rome, Gregoretti entered RAI ...

as Michele Parodi * Mariolina Cannuli as Danila Parodi * Nestor Garay as Father Bardella *

Karl-Otto Alberty Karl-Otto Alberty (also Karl Otto Alberty, 13 November 1933 – 25 April 2015) was a German actor. He was variously credited as ''Charles Albert'', ''Charles Alberty'' and ''Carlo Alberti''. Career Alberty was born as ''Karl-Otto Poensgen'' in Be ...

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.

References

External links

* 1969 films 1969 comedy films Films directed by Alberto Sordi Films scored by Piero Piccioni Commedia all'italiana Films set in Rome 1960s Italian-language films 1960s Italian films Italian-language comedy films {{1960s-Italy-comedy-film-stub