- Profumo di donna
Infobox_Film
name = Profumo di donna
imdb_id = 0072037
writer =Rugger Maccari Dino Risi
starring =Vittorio Gassman Alessandro Momo Agostina Belli
director =Dino Risi
producer =
music =Armando Trovajoli
distributor =
released =December 20 ,1974 Italy
runtime = 103 min
language = Italian
budget ="Profumo di donna" ("Scent of a Woman") is a
Commedia all'italiana film directed byDino Risi in 1974 based on "Il buio e il miele", a story byGiovanni Arpino . Both Risi and the leading actorVittorio Gassman won important Italian and French awards. There is also an American remake, "Scent of a Woman ".Plot summary
A blind Italian captain, accompanied by his aide Ciccio, 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.
Production details
Cast list
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Vittorio Gassman
*Alessandro Momo
*Agostina Belli Reception
Awards
*"Profumo di donna" was nominated for Two
Academy Award s in 1976 as Best Foreign Film, and as Best Writing, Screenplay Adapted From Other Material.
*David di Donatello , Best Actor (Vittorio Gassman), 1975
*David di Donatello, Best Director (Dino Risi), 1975
*Nastro d'Argento , Best Actor (Vittorio Gassman), 1975
*Cannes Film Festival , Best Actor (Vittorio Gassman), 1975
*César Award for Best Foreign Film , 1976References
External links
*imdb title|id=0072037|title=Profumo di donna
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