Yes, Salvatore. Salvatore Di Vita.
What do you mean you don't know him?
Yes, that's right. This is his mother.
I'm calling from Sicily. I've been trying all day.
I see. He's not there.
Then can you tell me, please...
656-220-56.
Thank you. Good-bye.
Mama, it's no use calling.
He's a busy man. He could be anywhere.
He won't remember anymore.
Come on, let it go.
He hasn't been here in 30 years.
You know how he is.
He'll remember.
I'm sure he'll remember. I know him better than you.
If he finds out later we didn't tell him, he'll be upset.
I'd like to talk to Mr. Salvatore Di Vita.
This is his mother.
What the hell are you looking at?
Salvatore...
what time is it?
It's very late.
I'm sorry. There was no way to let you know.
Go back to sleep.
Your mother called.
She took me for someone else.
What did you tell her?
I played along. I didn't want to disappoint her.
We had a long talk.
She said you haven't visited her in 30 years.
When she wants to see you, she comes to Rome.
She called just to say that?
No.
She said someone died... someone named Alfredo.
The funeral is tomorrow.
Who is he, a relative?
No. Go to sleep.
This boy will be the death of me.
Toto!
Better late than never.
How often must I say it? Without the bell, I lose my place.
You're always sleeping. What do you do at night, eat?
Father, at my house we don't even eat at noon.
The veterinarian says so. That's why I'm tired.
I know why you're tired. Don't think I don't.
Now run along home. I've something to do.
- Can I come? - No, you cannot.
- Yes, yes! - Toto, out!
I want to! I want to!
Alfredo.
You can start.
Here we go again.
Fix the picture!
Pepe, one day we'll have it all.
We'll go away together...
live the easy life...
where no one knows us.
Forget it.
You don't love me anymore.
It would be nice...
if you could spare a few kind words.
I can't.
Oh, well. Thanks anyway.
One pair, two pair!
One hundred lire! Real nylon!
You mustn't come here.
Can't you get it through your thick skull?
If the film catches fire...
little as you are, you'll go up... voom!
"And turn into a lump of coal."
Like to wag your tongue, eh?
One day I'll cut it off.
Like that.
Can I have it?
Come on, can I have it?
Well, can I?
What, are you deaf?
I have to splice it back in before I return the film.
You're such a pest!
Why didn't you splice these in when you gave the films back?
Sometimes I can't find the right place, so they stay here.
Anyway, they kiss too much.
Then I can have them.
No. Now look, come here.
Before I kick your behind, let's make a deal.
All those are yours... a present.
Thanks.
But one, you keep out of here, and two, they stay with me. Got it?
All right.
Right. Then we agree. Now scram.
What kind of a deal is that?
If they're mine, how come you keep them?
Don't come back, or I'll split your head open!
"Shoot first, think later."
"This is no job for cowards, you backstabbing dog!"
"Hey, you! Hands off the gold, you rotten bastard!"
"You dirty swine, stay away from me...
or I'll smash your face in."
Mama, if the war's over, why doesn't Papa come back?
He'll come back, you'll see. One of these days.
I don't remember him.
Where's Russia?
It takes years to get there...
and years to come back.
Go to bed. It's late.
You can fool your mother, but not me!
Get your diploma and join the police! Lazybones!
Good-for-nothing!
Get a move on!
Well? What is 5 times 5?
Thirty.
Silence!
The fives times table, dimwit.
One times 5 is 5...
2 times 5 is 10...
3 times 5 is 15...
4 times 5 is 20.
5 times 5?
Forty.
Silence!
Boccia...
twenty-five.
Learn your times tables, or you'll never get a job.
For the last time...
what is 5 times 5?
Christmas!
I paid to get in. I'm seeing the movie.
Get down from there, you rascal.
Go back to your seat.
Worse than rabbits. They're all over the place.
Little monsters.
I'm off to Oregon.
Wait for me at my ranch.
Wait for a dead man?
A star-studded cast...
featuring John Wayne...
Claire Trevor...
Hello, everyone!
- Can't I say hello? - It's a double feature today.
So? I'm here to sleep.
- Got some smokes? - American.
Cut the news, Alfredo!
Shut up! This stuff is important!
The men and women who fought in secret...
our brave partisans, are reunited in Rome...
for the first Resistance Rally...
organized by the CVL.
Parri is the acting president. Sandro Pertini...
Good evening, everyone!
Will you show the movie already?
Sit down and be quiet!
- What does it say? - I'm illiterate.
You too?
Twelve hours of blood and sweat...
and what they bring home barely keeps them from starving.
Yet when they pulled in their nets...
they were full.
They wanted 750 lire.
It's always the same.
But they don't pay us enough.
That's how it's always been.
And it's never going to change.
I knew it!
In 20 years I've never seen a kiss on the screen!
As if they'd let us!
Kiss my ass!
- Don Vincenzo. - You and you, to work.
What about me?
Go ask Stalin for a job.
His day will come. You watch.
I always get left out.
Good movie. The kid really acted well.
Too bad he was so unlucky.
What a jackass to buy that boat.
Idiot, you didn't get it at all.
Right, boys, you work from dawn to dusk.
And don't ask how much it pays.
I've been looking for you all day. Did you get the milk?
Where's the money?
It got stolen.
You spent it at the movies?
Movies, always movies!
Signora Maria, stop.
Leave him alone. Take it easy.
And you, why do you tell lies?
You know you got in for free.
Tell your mother.
Maybe he lost the money inside.
- How much did you have? - Fifty lire.
What did you find under the seats tonight?
A comb.
Two shoe lifts.
- A can of tobacco... - And...
fifty lire.
See?
Thank you, Alfredo.
I knew where you were going.
The square is mine! It's mine!
It's midnight. Midnight!
Out! Shoo! I have to close the square.
Hard on the feet, eh, Father?
On the way there, it's all downhill and all the saints help out.
But coming back, the saints just watch.
If that's God's will.
See you tonight.
What's wrong?
Your foot this time.
It's always something with you. What can I do?
Alfredo, did you know my father?
What a question. Of course I knew him.
Tall, thin, friendly guy with a big moustache like mine.
Always smiling. He looked a lot like Clark Gable.
Now that I'll be in fifth grade...
I don't say I should come in the booth...
but can't we at least be friends?
"I choose my friends for looks, my enemies for intelligence."
You're too sly to be my friend.
I always tell my children...
"Be careful how you choose your friends."
You haven't got any children.
When I do, I'll tell them.
Don't cry, don't cry. It's all right.
The fire's out. It's over. Mama's here.
What happened?
Monster!
Your little sister could have burned to death!
It's all your fault!
I told you not to keep your film under the bed by the fire pan.
Even the photographs burned!
He could have set the house on fire!
You and your stupid movies!
Aren't you ashamed to play with a little boy at your age?
What did I do?
Who gave him the film?
Don't do it again. He's crazy. Crazy, I tell you!
All I hear about is movies and Alfredo.
Alfredo and movies!
Swear you won't let him in again. Swear it!
You have my word.
May God grant me one wish.
May he send your father home to whip you!
Papa won't come back, and I know why.
He's dead.
That's not true.
I'll show you. He'll come back.
"Thus man's good and evil deeds do pass...
while time flows on like a river."
They smoke like chimneys!
No. Go buy a ticket.
What was that?
I'll make mincemeat out of you! You'll have to reckon with me!
Signora Anna!
Don't blame me. Your wife told me to bring your lunch.
I told my mother you didn't give me the film.
It wasn't your fault.
I thought it was a joke about film catching fire.
I just wanted to tell you. Now I'll go.
Toto, come here.
Come on and sit down.
Now listen. I got into this business at age ten.
Back then, we didn't have fancy machines.
Movies were silent.
You turned the projector by hand...
with a crank.
All the livelong day!
And that damn crank was so hard.
If you got tired and slowed down a bit...
like a shot... voom!... everything went up in flames.
So why not teach me?
Now that there's no crank and it's easier.
Because I don't want to.
This is no job for you.
You're like a slave...
and always by yourself.
You see a film 100 times. You've nothing else to do.
You talk to Greta Garbo and Tyrone Power like an idiot.
You work like a dog.
Even holidays... Easter, Christmas.
You only get Good Friday off.
And if they hadn't stuck Christ on a cross...
we'd even work then.
So why don't you change jobs?
Because I'm a nitwit.
Who else around here could run a projector?
Nobody. It takes an imbecile like me.
I never had any luck.
When I was little, there was a war.
When I grew up, there was another war.
So, you want to be a stick-in-the-mud like me? How about it?
Attaboy, Toto.
I'm telling you for your own good.
In here, you suffocate in summer and freeze to death in winter.
You breathe all these fumes.
And you earn chicken feed.
Don't you like anything about it?
Oh, you get used to it.
Sometimes you can hear...
that the house is full of people...
laughing and having fun.
Then you're happy too.
It makes you feel good to hear them.
Like you're the one who made them laugh...
who made them forget their troubles.
That part I like.
I might as well be speaking Greek! What're you up to?
You pretend to listen, then you trick me!
Your mother's right! You're crazy!
How'd the rascal do it? He learned by watching.
I'm telling the cashier not to let you in!
And I'll see Father Adelfio! No more altar boy! Finished!
Up yours!
I got it! I won! I won the football lottery!
The Neapolitan won the lottery!
Hey, Ciccio from Naples won the lottery!
It's always the northerners who get lucky.
The square is mine! All mine!
Hold still! Got ants in your pants?
You got a lice factory up here.
Beat it.
What're you after?
Get out of here.
A merchant owns two stores.
In one, he sells fruit.
Be seated.
Professor...
the night-school students are here for the grade-school diploma exam.
Silence!
Rotten little stinker!
- Toto, help me. - Silence!
I can't do this damn thing!
Francesco Messana...
you're under arrest.
Good riddance!
Kiss my ass! Pencil pusher!
Right here is where it can catch fire.
If it does, cut here and here, or the whole reel will burn. Got it?
Never! We'll never have that here.
Which side is the gelatin on?
It tastes good.
The shipping invoice for the film. Always keep these.
I will, Alfredo.
Don't ever forget them.
This is for you. Today you load the reels yourself.
- It's so high! - Now you can run it alone.
Hold it.
- What a build! - My turn!
Say good-bye to Peppino. He's leaving for Germany.
Why won't you say good-bye?
My father says he's a communist.
God keep you, Mama.
Will he really find work in Germany?
Who knows? It's an adventure.
All you can do is hope.
Screw this country!
Go work in Germany, you and your Stalin.
Good-bye, Mama.
Good-bye, Peppino! Come back soon!
We'll see you.
Lucky thing Germany is closer than Russia.
After six years, the return of spring fashion.
Fresh and breezy...
unlike the stodgy wartime styles.
I'll make mincemeat out of you!
"You'll have to reckon with me!"
Another sad chapter...
in the tragedy of our men in Russia.
The Defense Ministry...
has released a new list of Italian soldiers killed in battle...
until now considered missing.
The names will be posted by local military authorities...
who will directly notify the families involved.
However, we don't know where he's buried.
Here's the form for the pension. Sign it, please.
Get out! Go home! We can't have another show!
It's late. Be reasonable. We can't show it again!
Some people sat through it twice!
We've been waiting for an hour!
Tomorrow we'll have another movie.
A western. Word of honor! Go home to bed.
They'll wreck the Paradiso! All hell will break loose!
Alfredo, let us in!
What can I do?
"A mob doesn't think.
They don't know what they're doing."
Spencer Tracy said that in Fury.
Well, what do you say?
Shall we let the poor devils see their film?
Sure. But how?
"If you have no faith in me, have faith in what you see."
Now get your butt off that stool.
Get ready.
Abracadabra.
Look the other direction.
Go look out the window.
Alfredo, it's beautiful.
Over there! It's the movie!
Bravo, Alfredo!
Thank you, Alfredo!
What's going on?
It's a movie!
To hell with you all!
There's no sound!
Shall we make them happy?
Want to go down?
Go on.
- Look. - Good Lord!
And Nunzio, half price.
You have to buy tickets, folks.
Reduced rates.
Up yours! The square belongs to everyone!
Oh, no!
The square is mine! Don't joke about that or you'll piss me off!