New Cinema Paradiso, the actors of the cast yesterday and today. PHOTO

Nuovo Cinema Paradiso is one of Giuseppe Tornatore’s best-known films and is the film that made him famous internationally. The film won numerous awards, including the Special Jury Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in 1989, the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1990. Here’s how the cast’s actors have changed.

Cinema Paradiso, a TV series on the film by Giuseppe Tornatore is in the works

Disappeared in 2006 due to a tumor, the French actor Philippe Noiret plays in the film Alfredo, a projectionist hired by Don Adelfio, manager of the local cinema, to remove the scenes of the films in which the actors kiss

Actor Jacques Perrin takes on the role of adult Salvatore Di Vita, the successful director who is suddenly pushed to deal with his past in his distant Sicilian hometown.

Salvatore Cascio plays Salvatore as a child, when, in an attempt to steal the scenes of the cut films, he runs into Alfredo, gruff and grumpy, with whom he establishes a deep bond of friendship

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Grown up and now a teenager, Salvatore is played by Marco Leonardi. After becoming a regular cinema-goer and Alfredo’s assistant, Totò meets Elena Mendola, daughter of the new director of the local bank, and falls in love with her

Antonella Attili plays the role of Salvatore’s young mother, Maria, who initially does not look favorably on the friendship bond between Totò and Alfredo

Agnese Nano plays the role of the teenager Elena Mendola, who steals Salvatore’s heart. After a close courtship and some doubts on her part, she too admits that she fell in love with Salvatore

It is Brigitte Fossey who plays Elena Mendola now an adult, with whom Salvatore manages to meet again and clarify his feelings

Greetings Giuseppe Tornatore, the Sicilian director turns 64. PHOTO

The film does not lack a characteristic role for Leo Gullotta who plays Ignazio, a passionate visitor to the Nuovo Cinema Paradiso

It may surprise, but Giuseppe Tornatore carves out a cameo in the film’s finale, playing the role of a projectionist. In reality, Tornatore would have liked Federico Fellini to appear with a cameo, but the Rimini director refused