About the film: year - Awards /: Cannes Film Festival1 / 1981 / 1 hour 57 min.drama / melodrama / The the plot of the film "The Passion of Love": a French-Italian adaptation of the novel by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. The young cavalry captain Giorgio Bacchetti falls in love with the married beauty Clara. A young man's transfer to another crew interrupts a passionate romance. In a new place, Bacchetti meets a girl named Fosca, who cannot be compared to Clara in appearance, but has high spiritual and moral qualities. Fosca falls in love with Giorgio with all his devoted and kind heart. The heartthrob and lover of women does not know what to do with such sincere love from a girl. The director of "The Passion of Love", Ettore Scola, received a special award at the Cannes Film Festival for his overall services to cinema..