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Profumo Di Donna
''Scent of a Woman'' ( it, 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. 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 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 have see him disfigured and help ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruggero Maccari
Ruggero Maccari (28 June 1919 – 8 May 1989) was an Italian screenwriter. Specially known by his collaboration with film director and screenwriter Ettore Scola. He wrote Commedia all'italiana films such as ''The Easy Life'', '' Brutti sporchi e cattivi, ''or ''Adua e le compagne''. Awards He was nominated to the Academy Award for Dino Risi's '' Profumo di donna''. He won a David di Donatello for Ettore Scola's ''La famiglia''; and he was a 4 time Nastro d'Argento winner for ''La famiglia'', Scola's ''Passione d'amore'' and ''A Special Day'', and Antonio Pietrangeli's ''Io la conoscevo bene''. Selected filmography * ''Eleven Men and a Ball'' (1948) * '' The Transporter'' (1950) * ''Rome-Paris-Rome'' (1951) * ''The Passaguai Family'' (1951) * ''I, Hamlet'' (1952) * '' The Dream of Zorro'' (1952) * '' The Passaguai Family Gets Rich'' (1952) * ''The Piano Tuner Has Arrived'' (1952) * '' Beauties in Capri'' (1952) * '' The Doctor of the Mad'' (1954) * '' Toto Seeks Peac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |