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. 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.
