Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The Martini family hasn't completely settled into the new house yet, so everyone is on edge, and just getting through breakfast and out the door is a huge challenge.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lele rearranges his schedule to go home and have lunch with his kids, but they're with the in-laws. Instead, he meets his new next door neighbor.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lele isn't used to the commute and arrives late at the hospital, finding a room full of patients and an angry boss.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The move has been difficult and Lele’s parents come by, unwillingly, to lend a hand.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Grandpa, Lele and his three kids arrive at their new house. Everyone is excited about it--everyone, that is, except Maria who would have preferred to have stayed in Rome near her friends.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The Martini family is getting in the car to leave for their new home in Poggio Fiorito, a residential area outside of Rome. There are some last minute items to pack as well.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
A Doctor in the Family is a television series that has been broadcast on RAI 1 since 1998. Ciccio Martini, a young boy, introduces us to the members of his big family.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Anna recounts the story of Tosca, an opera singer who is in love with the painter Cavaradossi. Puccini's opera was first performed in Rome in 1900.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Anna tells us the tragic story of Cio-cio-san, protagonist of Madam Butterly, an opera by Giacomo Puccini, libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica. The opera was dedicated to the Queen of Italy, Elena di Montenegro.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Manara and his team are still looking for the hit-and-run driver who killed the tramp, and investigating the vineyard owner's disappearance. Lara gives Manara a clue as to why she's still angry with him.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
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Manuel gets some advice about his inheritance and talks about who might have had something to gain by his parents' death.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Manuel and his brother argue about their inheritance. Who should get the house? Who should get the photography studio? Video provided by pa74music.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Manuel is on the phone, being dunned, and he doesn’t know how repay his debts. Video provided by pa74music.
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: Intermediate
Italy
La Strada (The Road) is a 1954 film directed by Federico Fellini, with Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina. The film was partly shot at the famous Saltanò Circus, with actors and extras taken from that circus. Fellini changed the name of Anthony Quinn’s character from Saltanò into Zampanò, maybe for copyright reasons. The picture won an Oscar for best foreign film in 1957. It was the year the foreign prize was instituted and it allowed Fellini to break out from national boundaries.
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