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Nuovo Cinema Paradiso which means New Paradise Cinema, internationally released as Cinema Paradiso, is a 1988 Italian drama film written and directed by Giuseppe Tornatore and was produced by Franco Cristaldi and Giovanna Romagnoli, Salvatore had a flash back from where he was a child named Toto. The roman father Adelfio and the projectionist Alfredo thought they were smatter because they didn’t want Toto to know everything but he acted braver than them. Toto was smart because he stole film tapes from the projection room; he took what the lady was bringing to the projection because he had wanted to be there and then taught Alfredo in the exam room because he promised him to be In the projection room. Toto’s mother beat him always because he got into trouble everyday and blamed Alfredo for introducing his son into cinema. Later after the burning incident happened to Alfredo, Toto’s mother came to understand the reason why his son was much interested in cinema because there was nobody else to run the cinema except Toto. With the help of Toto running the cinema everybody was happy to see the first kiss at the cinema because nobody has seen a kiss at the cinema before. He was somehow sad because the projection room was empty without Alfredo but there appeared blind Alfredo in the projection room. Toto loved a beautiful lady called Elena but didn’t know how to tell her. Salvatore wos and wins Elena's heart, only to lose her owing to her father's disapproval. As Elena and her family move away, Salvatore leaves town to serve his compulsory military service. Salvatore had obeyed Alfredo, but he returned home for the first time to attend the funeral. Though the town had changed greatly, he now understood why Alfredo thought it was so important that he left. Alfredo's widow told him that the old man followed Salvatore's successes with pride, and he had left him something, an unlabeled film reel and the old stool that Salvatore once stood on to operate the projector. Salvatore learnt that Cinema Paradiso is to be demolished to give way to parking lots. As he looked at the proceedings, he recognized many people who attended the cinema when he was a projectionist there. Salvatore returns to Rome. He watches Alfredo's reel and discovers that it is a very special montage. It contains all the romantic scenes that the priest ordered to be cut from movies. Alfredo spliced all the sequences together to form a single film