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During the shows, the audience can be heard booing when there are missing sections, causing the films to suddenly jump, bypassing a critical romantic kiss or embrace. Although they initially start off on tense terms, he develops a friendship with the middle-aged projectionist, Alfredo, who often lets him watch movies from the projection booth. Nicknamed Toto, he discovers a love for films and spends every free moment at the movie house Cinema Paradiso. As his girlfriend asks him who Alfredo is, Salvatore flashes back to his childhood.Ī few years after World War II, eight-year-old Salvatore is the mischievous, intelligent son of a war widow. Salvatore obviously shies from committed relationships and has not been to his home village of Giancaldo, Sicily in thirty years. Language : Italian with English subtitlesĬast : Marco Leonardi, Salvatore Cascio, Leopoldo Trieste, Agnese Nano etc.In 1988 Rome, famous film director Salvatore Di Vita returns home late one evening, where his girlfriend sleepily tells him that his mother called to say someone named Alfredo has died. Cutting back to the present day, Salvatore realises that for too long he has put aside his memories of Alfredo who, before dying, made him a special present by which to remember him forever. Totò becomes the projectionist, until one day he leaves the town, bent on pursuing a career as film director. Some time goes by and a townsperson who has won a large sum of money on the football pools has the cinema rebuilt, renaming it Nuovo Cinema Paradiso. One evening, a reel of film bursts into flame and a fire breaks out, blinding Alfredo and destroying the cinema. During a long flashback scene, we witness the blossoming relationship between Salvatore (nicknamed Totò)and Alfredo, who practically adopts him as his own, taking Totò with him every day to watch him in the projection room. He decides to go home for the funeral however, as soon as he steps on home soil, memories of his childhood come flooding back, taking him back to the ‘40s when, as a little boy, his love for the cinema was interwoven with the everyday history of the town’s only cinema, the Cinema Paradiso, where his dear friend Alfredo worked as projectionist. One evening he receives a telephone call from his mother, informing him of the death of his friend Alfredo.

Salvatore Di Vita, a successful film director, now lives in Rome, although he was born and brought up in Sicily, in a town he has not seen in thirty years. 1000, 2 colour photographs and Photocopy of any Identity Card )įorm is available at the Centre or Click here to Download the formĮvent Details : Screening of the film 'Nuovo Cinema Paradiso'. Entry : Annual Membership Required ( Around Rs.

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