Cinema Paradiso
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Salvatore is a celebrated film director living in Rome, and when news arrives that Alfredo, the man who once ran the projector at the village cinema, has died, he returns to the Sicilian town where he grew up. Memories rise as he sits through the funeral and the days after. As a boy, he spent every spare moment in the cinema's booth with Alfredo, who taught him to love movies and bent the rules when the local priest objected to certain scenes. Their friendship, and the films that shaped it, form the heart of this story of a small-town childhood and the ways it stays with us.
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