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| Directed by | Dino Risi |
| Screenplay by | Ruggero Maccari Dino Risi |
| Based on | Il buio e il miele [it] byGiovanni Arpino |
| Produced by | Pio Angeletti Adriano De Micheli |
| Starring | Vittorio Gassman Alessandro Momo Agostina Belli |
| Cinematography | Claudio Cirillo |
| Music by | Armando Trovajoli |
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Running time | 103 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Scent of a Woman (Italian:Profumo di donna) is a 1974commedia all'italiana film directed byDino Risi, based onIl buio e il miele, a story byGiovanni Arpino. Both Risi and the leading actorVittorio Gassman won important Italian and French awards.
An American remake,Scent of a Woman, was released in 1992.
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 fromTurin toNaples to meet with an old comrade. He was disfigured in the same military incident that blinded the captain. Unknown to his aide, the Captain means to fulfill a suicide pact with his old comrade.
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 see him disfigured and helpless. The suicide pact is thwarted once Sara enters the picture, and the boy Ciccio does some much-needed growing up.
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