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Illuminate - Rita Levi Montalcini - Part 8

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Because of the racial laws in Italy during the period of Fascism, many Jews left the country, including Rita Levi Montalcini. In Italy she wasn't allowed to work or publish papers, but somehow, she found a way to keep going.

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Caption 15 [it]: [L'esercito tedesco entra in Belgio] [dieci maggio millenovecentoquaranta] [Il discorso del Führer]
Caption 15 [en]: [The German army enters Belgium] [ten May nineteen hundred and forty] [The Führer's speech]

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La pittura più bella del mondo - La Resurrezione di Piero della Francesca - Part 15

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

If two important works of Piero's survived the bombings during World War II, it was due to the efforts of art historians and restorers such as Ugo Procacci. In addition to the Resurrection, a wonderful painting of the Virgin Mary as she was expecting a child, "La Madonna del Parto" was saved and is now housed in the museum in Monterchi, Arezzo.

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Caption 26 [it]: e fa un bellissimo discorso che si chiama
Caption 26 [en]: and gives a very beautiful speech entitled,

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Meraviglie - S2 EP3 - Part 11

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

There are a good ninety rooms in Palazzo Nicolaci. As on the outside of the building, symbolism pervades every space, as if there were the fear of emptiness. And, in true Baroque style, it was all created to amaze the eye of the beholder.

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Caption 2 [it]: Il discorso simbolico dei balconi prosegue all'interno della casa nobiliare.
Caption 2 [en]: The symbolic theme of the balconies continues inside this aristocratic house.

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 1 - Part 23

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

At their meeting with the head of Curci music publishers in Milan, Riccardo and Mimmo dare to mention the word "contract." Once back in Rome, the Prince shows up at the artists' circle where Mimmo is having dinner.

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Caption 14 [it]: Sono pienamente d'accordo sulla portata metaforica del Suo discorso,
Caption 14 [en]: I am in full agreement about the metaphorical impact of what you are saying,

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Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 5

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Actor Giulio Brogi talks about how his role in The Subversives mirrored his character at the time. The Taviani brothers describe how they found another actor in that film, young Lucio Dalla, the famous (and now deceased) singer-songwriter.

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Caption 2 [it]: e quindi diventava un unico discorso
Caption 2 [en]: and therefore it became a single storyline,

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Meraviglie - EP. 6 - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

There were different kinds of tombs built by the Etruscans. Alberto Angela explains how and why they were made the way they were. He also takes us into one of the most famous and beautiful Etruscan tombs.

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Caption 30 [it]: qui, invece, il discorso è completamente diverso.
Caption 30 [en]: Here, instead, it's a whole different story.

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Meraviglie - EP. 5 - Part 9

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Alberto Angela gives us a simplified but fascinating description of how the Alps, and the Dolomites in particular, were formed from the sea. He goes on to tell a completely different story involving the Dolomites.

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Caption 18 [it]: Ma qui, nelle Dolomiti, il discorso è stato diverso.
Caption 18 [en]: But here, in the Dolomites, the situation was different.

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Me Ne Frego - Il Fascismo e la lingua italiana - Part 12

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Mussolini inveighs against the middle class, saying that it is the enemy of fascism. Much of the footage in this segment features EUR, the Rome district that was built in the 30s and 40s.

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Caption 21 [it]: un nemico del nostro Regime. [Benito Mussolini, discorso al Consiglio Nazionale del P.N.F millenovecentotrentotto.]
Caption 21 [en]: an enemy of our regime. [Benito Mussolini, speech to the National Council, National Fascist Party, nineteen thirty-eight]

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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 36 [it]: Questo discorso è avvenuto almeno una ventina di anni fa,
Caption 36 [en]: This circumstance came about at least twenty years ago,

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Anna presenta - La gravidanza - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Anna speaks about her prenatal and postpartum experience with the Italian National Health Service. She also discusses the five-month maternity leave that working women receive.

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Caption 2 [it]: rispetto al discorso sanità,
Caption 2 [en]: with respect to the issue of healthcare,

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Fellini Racconta - Un Autoritratto Ritrovato - Part 20

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Fellini talks about Rimini, his hometown, and how his memories, dreams and fantasies of that place are connected to his films.

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Caption 53 [it]: credo che faccia sempre un discorso che
Caption 53 [en]: I believe that he always makes a statement that

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L'arte della cucina - I Luoghi del Mondo - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

In this segment, cooking is seen as an art form, starting with a white plate as the artist's canvas...

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Caption 15 [it]: ed era il discorso che io facevo anche con Gualtiero Marchesi.
Caption 15 [en]: and this was the discussion I had also with Gualtiero Marchesi.

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Fellini Racconta - Un Autoritratto Ritrovato - Part 9

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Fellini talks about being an artist and about not being afraid to face one's doubts in order to carry out a mission.

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Caption 29 [it]: di... di riuscire a riascoltare un discorso che... che si è interrotto,
Caption 29 [en]: to... to be able to listen again to a thread that... that's been interrupted,

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Fellini Racconta - Un Autoritratto Ritrovato - Part 6

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Federico Fellini discusses Marcello Mastroianni's role as "everyman" in La Dolce Vita. He encourages viewers to see Mastroianni's "passions, hopes, fears and cowardice, and anguish and sleaziness" as similar to their own.

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Caption 29 [it]: rispettando la personalità di tutti, non facendo un discorso da comizio,
Caption 29 [en]: respecting everyone's personality, without making a long spiel,

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