Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Jacopo is skeptical about what the "occult worker" Zorus can do for him. But he may end up being convinced.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Sara and Jacopo will have a long challenging day ahead of them. They just don't know it yet.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The architects go to present the church project for Verona to the committee of clergymen. To get the most out of this segment, see this Wikipedia entry about Pandoro.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Jacopo's life is further turned upside down when he tries to escape to the only refuge he knows: his parents' house.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Jacopo has given up on everything. Sara is having more success than she banked on.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Jacopo is not as alone as he thought. And you'll never guess who he meets up with!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Jacopo has a real time crunch on his hands, especially once he hears of a wedding taking place at that very moment.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
We're finally at the end of our film. Enjoy!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
In this ad, heroic Giuseppe Garibaldi is stereotyped as a mammone (mama's boy), still under the thumb of his mammina (dear mother), stereotypical overprotective Italian mother.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
TIM is Italy's state controlled mobile phone service. In this madcap ad, we're taken back to the time of Garibaldi, where the great unifier of Italy complains to his mother about her laundry skills. In order to avoid parolacce (dirty words), Garibaldi resorts to a euphemism, which even when translated won't make sense to many of us. What he means in caption 8 is "Like hell."
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy Neapolitan
In this scene from the 1960 film He Who Stops Is Lost. Totò plays the part of Antonio Guardalvecchia, and attempts to court Giulia. She's the sister of the president, and he courts her in order to get a job in the head office. The scene on the balcony recalls Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Massimo Venier's movie is about one of the troubling subjects of our times: The Thousand Euro Generation. As the title suggests, the new Italian generation earn 1000 euros a month, regardless of their education or profession. The lives of the main characters, Matteo, who has just graduated and is a mathematical genius, and Francesco, a cinema and playstation buff become intertwined with those of Angelica and Beatrice.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Tuscan
Life is Beautiful is the 1997 dramatic comedy, directed by and starring Roberto Benigni. It received three Oscars. The film takes place in a concentration camp in Nazi Germany. Guido (Benigni) in order to protect his son, pretends that the Jewish deportation and the war are just a game, with the final prize: a tank.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Christmas on a Cruise is a Christmas comedy release. The film follows the separate and parallel stories of Paolo and Michela. We wish you a good laugh!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
In the first episode, Carlo is on vacation in South Africa with his beloved Susanna, his second wife. Everything seems to be going well until, by a strange trick of fate, he meets his younger brother Giorgio and his wife Marta…
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