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Vivere - Un'avventura di Vittorio De Sica - Part 8 View Series View This Episode

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Actors, including Alberto Sordi, who were performing at the Quattro Fontane (four fountains) theater on the fateful day of 23 March 1944 are in danger of being caught by the Germans. During the filming of his movie, De Sica leaves the safety of the basilica just once and is caught and questioned by a Nazi General about why the film is taking so long to be shot.

Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 5 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

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Perhaps not everyone knows that Margherita Hack as a girl was quite the athlete. Her sport was track and field. She also had a passion for cycling and rode her bike well into her seventies.

Moscati, l'amore che guarisce - EP 2 - Part 4 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

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Elena tries to convince her father that Giuseppe will change after they get married. He remains very skeptical. Giuseppe is spoon-feeding Cloe to give her some nourishment, meanwhile telling her how he decided to become a doctor.

Vivere - Un'avventura di Vittorio De Sica - Part 7 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

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During the filming of Heaven's Gate, there were some dicey moments where De Sica had to deal with the German troops and needed all his wits about him. At the same time his crew was cooped up in the basilica and didn't always behave as they should — in fact, tutt'altro (anything but). The narrator also mentions an anecdotal story Fellini told about his experience with the Germans.

Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 4 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Margherita was much more interested in substance and knowledge than in material things, including physical appearance, and this became her brand, in a certain sense. That didn't keep people from loving and respecting her, although there were some occasional incidents, a few of which are recounted by people who knew her.

Moscati, l'amore che guarisce - EP 2 - Part 3 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

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Cloe really does not want to stay in the hospital and Giuseppe finds a solution, but not everyone is thrilled about it.

Vivere - Un'avventura di Vittorio De Sica - Part 6 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

To recreate the environment of the San Loreto church, the Basilica of St Paul's Outside the Walls was used for the final scene of the film. The crew was accustomed to working in a non-religious setting where they could do as they liked, so it was a full-time job trying to keep their bad habits (such as smoking) in check so they wouldn't get kicked out by their hosts.

Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 3 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Margherita Hack made her mark on the University of Trieste, teaching Astronomy there for almost 30 years and linking it with the Observatory. She had to use some drastic means to be recognized, however, being a woman in a man's world. But the balance changed over time, with her help, to involve many more women than before, both as students and researchers.

Moscati, l'amore che guarisce - EP 2 - Part 2 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Giuseppe would like to spend more time with Elena, but at the moment there is too much to do at the hospital. A woman brings a baby to the door of a church to leave it, but she is suddenly taken ill and falls to the ground.

Vivere - Un'avventura di Vittorio De Sica - Part 5 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Our narrator describes what it was like working on the set of La porta del cielo (the Gates of Heaven): the extras, the dangers, the boredom, and the strategies for keeping the cast and crew safe. He also explains how they reconstructed the railway carriages that are featured so prominently in the film.

Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 2 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Eda discovered Margherita Hack on a TV show hosted by Piero Angela. This changed Eda's life. Margherita as a young scientist had a rough time in a profession where men were the important ones and had little regard for women.

Vivere - Un'avventura di Vittorio De Sica - Part 4 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

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Vittorio De Sica, along with other filmmakers and actors, does not want to be transferred to Venice, as has been mandated by the State. There, he would have to shoot propaganda movies for the Fascists. Luckily a Catholic film company wants to make a movie about a train of sick and deformed people on their way to seek miracles at the shrine of Our Lady of Loreto, a popular pilgrimage destination in the Marches region. The kind of train that carries pilgrims is called un treno bianco (a white train).

Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

A car problem allows us to meet Eda Gjergo, a young astrophysicist, who will in turn lead us to meet Margherita Hack, the subject of this episode about women luminaries. Hack was a famous scientist, communicator, and activist.

Moscati, l'amore che guarisce - EP 2 - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Moscati tries to calm the crowd of people and help them understand that it isn't necessary to burn all their household belongings, and that cholera is transmitted through their drinking water. He promises to help treat them as Elena watches the scene from afar.

Vivere - Un'avventura di Vittorio De Sica - Part 3 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

When the Americans bombed Rome in 1943, Maria was shooting a film in the San Lorenzo area, right where the freight yards were, the target of the bombing. Vittorio, on the other side of town, rushed to the site. Life would soon become extremely complicated and dangerous for those in the film industry.

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