''Una storia d'amore'' is a 1969 Italian film directed by

Michele Lupo Michele Lupo (4 December 1932 – 27 June 1989) was an Italian film director. He directed 23 films between 1962 and 1982. He was born in Corleone, Italy, and died in Rome, Italy. Selected filmography * ''Colossus of the Arena'' (1962) * ...

featuring soprano

Anna Moffo Anna Moffo (June 27, 1932 – March 9, 2006) was an American opera singer, television personality, and actress. One of the leading lyric- coloratura sopranos of her generation, she possessed a warm and radiant voice of considerable range and agil ...

.Filmfacts - Volume 15 1972- Page 210 Under Michele Lupo's direction (excellent post-synchronization by Gene Luotto), the Italian production unravels a series of murders on a British estate. The Met Opera soprano, Anna Moffo, heads a cast of delightful players . . . The end result is a mishmash of film genres which are hilariously incongruous. This is not one of those terrible films that can be explained away as camp; it had to be deliberately planned the way it is (or else miracles still happen). The effective score by Francesco De Masi utilizes the comic results the opening bars of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto punctuated with rifle shots. Vincenzo Tomassi edited to a solid 98 minutes. Film is being paired with "The Black Belly Of The Tarantula." ..."

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1969 films 1960s Italian films {{1960s-Italy-film-stub