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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 1 - Part 5

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Domenico è in partenza per Roma. Sul pullman intrattiene gli altri passeggeri cantando e suonando la chitarra. Una volta arrivato a Roma, familiarizza con un frate del convento in cui alloggerà e poi arriva finalmente il giorno in cui realizza il suo sogno più grande.

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Fumettology - TEX - Part 3

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

It's fascinating to see where the idea of Tex Willer came from and how it evolved. We get to know the creators, Gianluigi Bonelli and Aurelio Galleppini (pen name Galep).

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Caption 9 [it]: e, e lavorava praticamente giorno e notte
Caption 9 [en]: and, and he worked, basically, day and night

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Fumettology - Diabolik - Part 3

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

The creators of Diabolik had commuters in mind. They wanted to create something engaging that one could read in the time of a commute, and which was pocket-sized. We also discover why the name Diabolik ends with a K.

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Caption 38 [it]: che ogni giorno fa venire un sacco di pendolari dall'hinterland milanese,
Caption 38 [en]: that every day brings a lot of commuters from the Milanese hinterland,

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 1 - Part 22

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Franca's career is going nicely, and Mimmo decides that he'll do whatever they want him to: Sing, dance, act...

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Caption 4 [it]: qui guadagna quindicimila lire al giorno?
Caption 4 [en]: earns fifteen thousand lire a day here?

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 1 - Part 18

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy Pugliese

Domenico gets a big chance to sing for a celebrity, but it doesn't go the way he imagines. Palmieri keeps coming up with ideas for him, however.

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Caption 61 [it]: Ma un giorno verrò io in America e tu canterai una canzone per me.
Caption 61 [en]: But one day I'll come to America and you will sing a song for me.

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 1 - Part 15

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Mimmo is discouraged about getting rejected at the radio station, and Riccardo gives him some criticism. Franca has a different opinion. The students get together to celebrate the end of their two-year program at the Experimental Center.

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Caption 75 [it]: un giorno diventerà un grande attore".
Caption 75 [en]: one day, will become a great actor."

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 1 - Part 14

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Domenico gets a small role in a movie where he has to sing a child to sleep. He then tries his luck in a singing contest. He also seems to be getting some attention from some women...

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Caption 30 [it]: Eh, no, ti volevo chiedere scusa per la scena che ho fatto l'altro giorno.
Caption 30 [en]: Uh, no, I wanted to apologize to you for the scene I made the other day.

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 1 - Part 12

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Domenico happens to get a glimpse of Vittorio De Sica himself and chases him down to ask him for a part.

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Caption 85 [it]: Non so se riesco a resistere fino a quel giorno, però ci provo.
Caption 85 [en]: I don't know if I can hold out until that day, but I'll try.

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 1 - Part 10

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

In the present, Domenico is describing his life in Rome to his audience. There are flashbacks to the reality of those times.

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Caption 43 [it]: Modugno, Lei ogni giorno se ne inventa una.
Caption 43 [en]: Modugno, every day you make up an excuse.

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 1 - Part 4

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

In Sicily, at one time, horses would work in the sulfur mines and slowly become blind. The story is told through a Sicilian ballad, sung by Domenico Modugno. Mimì's mother sits with him as he prepared his bags, but she struggles to understand why he would want to leave. See complete lyrics (in Sicilian) here.

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Caption 11 [it]: Sapete che mi ricordo del giorno della mia partenza?
Caption 11 [en]: You know what I remember about the day of my departure?

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 1 - Part 2

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Domenico tells his story to the audience, and to us, as he takes us back to when he was a youth. There was one movie theater in town, and he was always there.

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Caption 35 [it]: Luci', un giorno ti suono una serenata pure per te. Cia'.
Caption 35 [en]: Luci', one day I will play a serenade for you, too. Blang.

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Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 15

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

The documentary comes to a close with an interview regarding a prison cell used during the Inquisition. The cell bears the graffiti of its inmates. Pitrè had laboriously uncovered the graffiti, but it was only rediscovered in the 1970s by the writer Leonardo Sciascia and the interviewee in this segment, Giuseppe Quatriglio, who used Pitrè's writing to find it.

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Caption 3 [it]: Sciascia era molto amico mio, ci vedevamo quasi ogni giorno.
Caption 3 [en]: Sciascia was a very good friend of mine, we saw each other almost every day.

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Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 9

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy Sicilian

Giuseppe Pitrè received his degree in medicine in 1865. His patients, among Palermo's poorest, provided him with a wealth of ethnographic material.

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Caption 27 [it]: È un'umanità sofferente quella che incontra ogni giorno Pitrè,
Caption 27 [en]: It is a suffering humanity, the one Pitrè encounters every day,

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Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 8

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy Sicilian

The segment concentrates on the richness of the Sicilian dialect, a dialect which is less and less spoken. The narrator interviews two poets who recite their works in Sicilian, providing insights into the language.

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Caption 72 [it]: Ca jornu dopu jornu pari ca s'alluntana [che sembra allontanarsi giorno dopo giorno]
Caption 72 [en]: Which seems to distance itself day by day

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Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 5

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy Sicilian

This segment focuses on an actor who retells and acts out stories from Sicily's past, speaking in Sicilian dialect. He uses the Pitrè Museum as a source for material. The museum houses a manuscript with over 4,000 Sicilian proverbs, just one of the many volumes of Sicilian ethnographic material.

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Caption 90 [it]: Un giorno del milleottocentosessantasei, durante una battaglia garibaldina,
Caption 90 [en]: One day in eighteen sixty-six, during a Garibaldian battle,

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