Delitti e profumi
| Crimes and Perfume | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Directed by | Vittorio De Sisti |
| Written by |
Francesco Massaro Franco Ferrini Oreste De Fornari Carlo Alberto Bonadies |
| Music by | Umberto Smaila |
| Cinematography | Giuseppe Maccari |
Running time | 90 minutes |
| Language | Italian |
Delitti e profumi (also known as Crimes and Perfume) is a 1988 Italian giallo film directed by Vittorio De Sisti.[1][2][3]
Cast
- Jerry Calà as Eddy
- Umberto Smaila as Inspector Turroni
- Lucrezia Lante della Rovere as Barbara
- Eva Grimaldi as Porzia
- Mara Venier as Sister Melania
- Marina Viro as Maria Rita aka "Mariri"
- Simonetta Gianfelici as Ambra
- Nina Soldano as Yoko
- Silvia Annichiarico as The Department Director
- Novello Novelli as The Ventriloquist
- Alba Parietti as Patty Pravo
Plot
Eddy, a detective who works as a security guard in a department store, is engaged with Barbara, who works as a clerk in the same store.
After receiving a perfume as a gift from a mysterious admirer, Barbara burns alive passing under a series of warm halogen spotlights.
In order to discover the truth about the death of Barbara, Eddy decides to investigates together with Inspector Turroni.
Afterward a prostitute named Portia is murdered in similar circumstances and Eddy discovers the cause of the deaths: the perfume sent by the killer contains a highly flammable substance (benzopyrene-15).
He decides than to find the connection between the two women and he discovers two pieces of a picture that the two victims had. The picture was taken years before, in 1971, when the victims were just young girls. They spent that summer together with a third girl, Mariri, and another mysterious girl at a holiday camp managed by Sister Melania.
The solution of the crimes is a terrible accident occurred during that summer.