Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born under his mother's table at the fish market, onto a pile of muddy fish guts, establishing from the beginning his repulsion for putrid scents. A childhood of neglect and, later, a job at a tannery, encourage Jean-Baptiste to develop his olfactory sense rather than his verbal skills. When an opportunity to prove his worth to Parisian perfumist, Giuseppe Baldini, it results in his immediate hire into a promising new career. His successes in perfume mixing are negated by a blinding obsession for capturing the sublime beauty of human soul, which in his twisted logic requires the killing of young women to reduce their body fats to essential oils for the ultimate perfume.
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Physical Description:1 videodisc (147 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Publisher:Hollywood, CA :Paramount Home Entertainment,[2007]
General Note:
Based on the novel Das parfum by Patrick Süskind.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2006.
Widescreen format.
Special features include: "The story of perfume" featurette.
Creation/Production Credits Note:
Director of photography, Frank Griebe ; editor, Alexander Berner ; music, Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek, Tom Tykwer ; costume designer, Pierre-Yves Gayraud ; production designer, Uli Hanisch.
Participant or Performer Note:
Ben Whishaw, Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Alan Rickman, John Hurt.