Scent of a Woman by Dino Risi

Scent of a Woman
Poster for U.S. release
Directed by	Dino Risi
Produced by	Pio Angeletti Adriano De Micheli
Written by	Ruggero Maccari Dino Risi
Based on	Il buio e il miele [it] by Giovanni Arpino
Starring	Vittorio Gassman Alessandro Momo Agostina Belli
Music by	Armando Trovajoli
Cinematography	Claudio Cirillo
Release date	20 December 1974
Running time	103 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Scent of a Woman (Italian: Profumo di donna) is a 1974 Commedia all'italiana film directed by Dino Risi, based on Il buio e il miele, a story by Giovanni Arpino. Both Risi and the leading actor Vittorio Gassman won important Italian and French awards. An American remake, Scent of a Woman, was released in 1992.

Contents

• 1 Plot
• 2 Cast
• 3 Awards
• 4 See also
• 5 References
• 6 External links

Plot

A blind Italian captain (Fausto Consolo), accompanied by his aide Ciccio (Giovanni Bertazzi), who has been assigned to him by the army, is on his way from Turin to Naples to meet with an old comrade who was also disfigured in the same military incident. Unknown to his aide, the Captain means to fulfill a suicide pact there. While they journey, the Captain asks Ciccio to help him spot beautiful women. Unsatisfied with the boy's descriptions, he uses his nose instead, claiming that he can smell a beautiful woman. During their journey, he carries with him a picture of his beloved Sara, whom he could not bear to have see him disfigured and helpless. The suicide pact is eventually thwarted once Sara enters the picture, and the boy Ciccio does some much-needed growing up.

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