Bobby Deerfield

There seem to be a lot of similarities between De Sica's "A place for lovers" and Pollack's "Bobby Deerfield" (filmed eight years later) itself adapted from Erich Maria Remarque's novel "Heaven has no favourites".Only the ethnicities of the two central characters are reversed: in "Deerfield" an american race car driver (Al Pacino) falls in love with an enigmatic beautiful European woman (Marthe Keller) who is terminally ill.It's highly possible that Brunello Rondi who wrote the screenplay for "Amanti" used Remarque's novel as a basis for his story.Both films are interesting in the tradition of the doomed love story.