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Cinema Paradiso(1988)
Released
1988 · FILM

Cinema Paradiso

When celebrated director Salvatore learns his estranged mentor Alfredo has died, he must return to his Sicilian hometown and confront the forbidden childhood bond that ignited his love of film before his success can finally consume it.

“An enchanted village. A wonderful friendship. Star-crossed lovers. And the magic of the movies.”

Directed by
Giuseppe Tornatore
Written by
Giuseppe Tornatore, Vanna Paoli
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
124 min
Language
IT
DramaRomance
Streaming on
  • MGM+

Synopsis

A filmmaker reflects on his childhood, remembering the moment he fell in love with the movies at the theater in his village and how he developed a close friendship with the theater's projectionist.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 37

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Mario MorraShot by Blasco GiuratoScored by Ennio MorriconeDesigned by Andrea Crisanti

Box Office

1988 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 7.2× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$36.0M

Budget$5.0M
Worldwide gross$36.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Re-release box office

200215 theaters
$616K($1.1M today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Cinema Paradisode
  • Cinema Paradisoen
  • Cinema Paradisoes
  • Cinema Paradisofr

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