Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1988):
Cast and Characters (20 limit): Antonella Attili as Maria Di Vita – Younger / Enzo Cannavale as Spaccafico / Isa Danieli as Anna / Leo Gullotta as Usher / Marco Leonardi as Salvatore ‘totake ²’ Di Vita – Teenager / Pupell Maggio as Maria Di Vita – Older / Agnese Nano as Elena Mendola / Leopoldo Trieste as Father Adelfio / Salvatore Cascio as Salvatore ‘totake ²’ Di Vita – Child / Tano Cimarosa as Blacksmith / Nicola Di Pinto as the Village Idiot / Robert Lane as Lie / Nino Terzo as Peppino’s Father / Jacques Perrin as Salvatore ‘totake ²’ Di Vita – Adult / Brigitte Fossey as Elena Mendola – Adult
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Language: Italian / English / Portuguese
Location: Bagheria, Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Release Date: 20 September 1989 (France)
Runtime: 155 min
Title: Cinema Paradiso
IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095765/
Author: Giuseppe Tornatore / Vanna Paoli
Year: 1988
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1988) – Shortly:
(A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village’s theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater’s projectionist. )
In Rome, in the 1980s, famous Italian film director Salvatore Di Vita, returns home late one evening, where his girlfriend sleepily tells him that his mother called to say that someone named Alfredo has died. Salvatore obviously shies from committed relationships, and has not been to his home village of Giancaldo, Sicily in 30 years. As she asks him who Alfredo is, Salvatore flashes back to his childhood.
It is a few years after World War II. Six-year-old Salvatore is the mischievous, intelligent son of a war widow. Nicknamed Toto, he discovers a love for films and spends every free moment at the movie house — Cinema Paradiso. There he develops a friendship with the fatherly projectionist, Alfredo, who takes a shine to the young boy, and often lets him watch movies from the projection booth. 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. The local priest ordered these sections “censored.” The deleted scenes are piled on the projection room floor. At first, Alfredo considers Toto a bit of a pest, but eventually he teaches Salvatore to operate the film projector. The montage ends as the movie house catches fire — highly flammable Nitrate film was in routine use at the time. Salvatore saves Alfredo’s life, but not before some film reels explode in Alfredo’s face, leaving him permanently blind. The Cinema Paradiso is rebuilt by a town citizen, Ciccio, who invests his football lottery winnings. Salvatore, yet a child, is hired as the new projectionist, being the only person who knows how to run the machines.
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