A young private is assigned to accompany a blind captain. It soon becomes clear that they are both complex personalities.A young private is assigned to accompany a blind captain. It soon becomes clear that they are both complex personalities.A young private is assigned to accompany a blind captain. It soon becomes clear that they are both complex personalities.
- Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 9 wins & 6 nominations total
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- TriviaAlessandro Momo (Giovanni Bertazzi, aka Ciccio) died on 20 November 1974 (shortly after the shooting of the movie was completed) in Rome, Italy (motorcycle accident) not far from the filming locations.
- GoofsWhile sitting outside of the Rome restaurant with Ciccio (44 mins in), the one-armed Fausto is seen impatiently drumming the fingers of his artificial hand on the table.
- Quotes
Il capitano Fausto Consolo: [sniffs] Do you smell that?
Giovanni Bertazzi, aka Ciccio: What, sir?
Il capitano Fausto Consolo: [sniffs] I smell females. How were they? Tell me. Tall, short? I know they were young. I know the smell of young armpits. Kiddo, what did they look like? Describe them, damn it!
Giovanni Bertazzi, aka Ciccio: I don't know. I didn't get a good look. There were two of them.
Il capitano Fausto Consolo: What good are your eyes? Do you like women? Yes or no? And if you do, can't you tell if a breast is shaped like a pear or an apple? If an ass is high or low? Do you think I suffer because I can't see the sunset or the dome of St. Peter's? Sex! Thighs, two nice ass cheeks. That's the only religion. The only political ideal. Man's true country.
- ConnectionsFeatures Rififi (1955)
- SoundtracksIl canotto
Written by Gianni Davoli (as Davoli), Fucolari
Performed by Gianni Davoli
Edizioni CAM
Dino Risi worked with the "who's who" of Italian cinema, but he became famous also for casting frequently actors like Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi, Nino Manfredi and Alberto Sordi -they were ideal for characterizing Italian defects and virtues, above all defects...! "Profumo di donna" is taken from a book by Giovanni Arpino. In this 1974 movie Vittorio Gassman is a blind ex military officer who makes a trip from Genova to Naples. A young boy accompanies him. Fausto -Gassman's character- has to deal with the tragedy of being blind, he wants to commit suicide...
Fausto is a man who lost everything; he can feel the presence of a woman (which explains the title "Profumo di donna", in English "Scent of a woman") but doesn't want to be loved for pity.
It's difficult to describe a film which has a lot of themes -friendship, aging, the drama of being different from the others. But everything is treated in a delicate and moving way, although it's not a film for making you cry.
Vittorio Gassman performance is simply superb -he won a prize in Cannes in 1975. The picture got that same year an Academy Award nomination.
In 1992 Al Pacino starred in an American remake -"Scent of a woman", as I said the title is the exact translation from the Italian one. The actor won an Oscar but the film is not as good as the original. Apart from the extraordinary Pacino performance, everything is treated in a typical Hollywood way, with a more schematic story (for example the fact that the blind officer later helps his young companion is absent in the original film).
I suggest the people who only saw the Al Pacino version to see the Vittorio Gassman film -it's softer and more complex at the same time.
- michelerealini
- Oct 12, 2005
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- Der Duft der Frauen
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- $41,998
- Runtime1 hour 43 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1