Salvatore, a famous film director, returns to his hometown for the funeral of the local theater's film projectionist, Alfredo. He reminisces about his life as a young boy falling in love wit... Read allSalvatore, a famous film director, returns to his hometown for the funeral of the local theater's film projectionist, Alfredo. He reminisces about his life as a young boy falling in love with cinema.Salvatore, a famous film director, returns to his hometown for the funeral of the local theater's film projectionist, Alfredo. He reminisces about his life as a young boy falling in love with cinema.
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- TriviaPhilippe Noiret said all of his lines in French, his native language. He was later dubbed in Italian by Vittorio Di Prima. In the French version, Noiret dubbed himself.
- GoofsAt one point, scenes from ...And God Created Woman (1956) are shown. A while later, Salvatore is shown marking a calendar dated 1954. "And God Created Woman" was released in 1956.
- Quotes
- Alfredo: Living here day by day, you think it's the center of the world. You believe nothing will ever change. Then you leave: a year, two years. When you come back, everything's changed. The thread's broken. What you came to find isn't there. What was yours is gone. You have to go away for a long time... many years... before you can come back and find your people. The land where you were born. But now, no. It's not possible. Right now you're blinder than I am.
- Salvatore: Who said that? Gary Cooper? James Stewart? Henry Fonda? Eh?
- Alfredo: No, Toto. Nobody said it. This time it's all me. Life isn't like in the movies. Life... is much harder.
- Alternate versionsOriginally presented at the EuropaCinema Festival in a 173-minute edition. It was there released in Italy at 155 minutes; after a very poor box office performance, the film was pulled out of circulation and shortened to 124 minutes. After it won the Special Jury Prize at the 1989 Cannes festival and the Best Foreign Film Oscar, it was re-released in Italy on video first in its initial 155 minutes cut and then in the original 173-minutes director's cut.
- ConnectionsEdited into Lo schermo a tre punte (1995)
- SoundtracksNuovo Cinema Paradiso (Titoli)
Written by Ennio Morricone
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- Биоскоп Парадизо
- Filming locations
- Cefalù, Palermo, Sicily, Italy(film screening in the port, Elena's house at Via Umberto I°, 3)
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Box office
- Budget
- $5,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $12,397,210
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $16,552
- Feb 4, 1990
- Gross worldwide
- $13,503,091








































