New cinema "Paradiso"

Salvatore Di Vita, who became a famous director, one day late in the evening, returning home, learns from his girlfriend that his mother called and said that someone named Alfredo was dead. Salvatore returns to the past, to his childhood and youth.

The events of the film begin immediately after the Second World War in the provincial town of Giancaldo, in Sicily . 6-year-old Salvatore grows up in a family without a father who died at the front. The boy loves watching films and makes friends with the projection engineer Alfredo, who works in the recently opened Paradiso movie theater. The boy’s nickname is Toto’s boy, just like his idol is a famous Italian actor . Salvatore becomes a student of Alfredo and learns all the wisdom of the craft of projection mechanics, helping him to conduct sessions. Life is in full swing in a dark cinema: people get to know each other, discuss the news, make love - but if the film is good, they are completely absorbed in the action on the screen. The audience is often indignant, during the demonstration of the films, scenes are clearly skipped - the local priest demands to cut episodes that are unnecessarily risky in his opinion from romantic films.

At one of the sessions of the movie “ Firefighter from I See ” ( en ), not everyone was able to get to the cinema and the crowd gathered near Paradiso required an additional session. Then Alfredo shows the boy a miracle. Directly from a projection booth, he directs the beam of a film projector onto the wall of a neighboring house, and in the middle of the night begins an impromptu session on the street. Alfredo stares at the film and misses the moment the film ignites. A severe fire begins, Alfredo does not have time to cope with the fire and loses consciousness from the burns received. Salvatore runs into the movie booth and saves his life. However, the projectionist loses sight. Cinema is being restored. There is no one to work in it and only Salvatore knows how to show films. He becomes a projectionist for a long time.

Years pass. Their friendship continues. Alfredo told Salvatore that the day would come when he would need to leave the provincial town. The boy grew up, went through military service and did not have a family, because the first and only love disappeared without a trace, taken away by his father in an unknown direction. From the loss of his beloved, according to the instructions of Alfredo, he leaves for Rome, where he became a successful filmmaker. After decades, Salvatore returns to his hometown and attends a funeral service, honoring the memory of Alfredo. The town has unrecognizably changed, the cinema is closed and about to be demolished, and a parking lot will appear in its place. Alfredo, before his death, asked to transfer a reel of film to Salvatore. Salvatore revises the film and it turns out that all the scenes that the priest had once demanded to cut from films were mounted on it, and in one of the scenes Alfredo said that he gives the cropped films to Salvador, but they will be kept with him, Alfredo.

• Philippe Noiret - Alfredo, Projectionist
• Isa Daniele - Alfredo's Wife
• Salvatore Cacho - Salvatore Di Vita (in childhood)
• Marco Leonardi - Salvatore Di Vita (in his youth)
• Jacques Perrin - Salvatore Di Vita (in adulthood)
• Giovanni Giancono - Mayor
• Agnese Nano - Elena Mendola (in youth)
• Brigitte Fosse - Elena Mendola (in adulthood, not in the shortest international version)
• Robert Lena - Leah
• Nicola Di Pinto - the village idiot, the “master” of the square in front of the cinema
• Tano Cimarosa - a blacksmith who constantly slept during film screenings
• Antonella Attili - Maria, mother of Salvatore (in her youth)
• Pupella Maggio - Maria, mother of Salvatore (in old age)
• Enzo Cannavale - a rich man from Naples, the owner of a cinema
• Leo Gullotta - Ignacio
• Leopoldo Trieste - Priest Adelfio
• Nino Terzo - Priest Peppino
• Olivia De Havilland - Virgin Marian in the movie “ The Adventures of Robin Hood ” (1938)

• 1989 Cannes Film Festival
  • Winner (1):
    • Grand jury prize
  • Nominations (1):
    • Golden palm branch
• 1990 Cesar
  • Winner (1):
    • Best poster
  • Nominations (1):
    • Best Foreign Language Film
• 1990 Golden Globe
  • Winner (1):
    • Best Foreign Language Film - Italy
• 1990 Oscar
  • Winner (1):
    • Best Foreign Language Film - Italy
• 1991 " British Academy "
  • Winner (5):
    • Best Foreign Language Film
    • Best Actor ( Philippe Noiret )
    • Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Salvatore Porridge )
    • Best original script
    • Best soundtrack
  • Nominations (6):
    • Best Director ( Giuseppe Tornatore )
    • Best operator work
    • Best costumes
    • Best installation
    • Best makeup
    • The best work of a production designer

• “New Cinema Paradiso” on the Internet Movie Database
• Review and review of the movie Roger Ebert
• Review and review of the Washington Post movie