L'amore difficile

{{short description|1962 film}}

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| name = L'amore difficile

| image = L'amore difficile.jpg

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| director = Alberto Bonucci
Sergio Sollima
Nino Manfredi
Luciano Lucignani

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| starring = Nino Manfredi
Vittorio Gassman

| music = Piero Umiliani

| cinematography = Erico Menczer

| editing = Eraldo Da Roma

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| released = {{Film date|1962|12|24|df=y}}

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| country = Italy

| language = Italian

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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).{{cite book|title=Bianco e nero, Volume 24|publisher=Centro sperimentale di cinematografia|page=122}} 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.{{cite book|last=Franca Faldini, Goffredo Fofi|title=L'Avventurosa storia del cinema italiano raccontata dai suoi protagonisti, 1960-1969|publisher=Feltrinelli, 1981}}

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