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Meraviglie - EP. 1 - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

La sala del Trono, immensa e magnifica in tutti i suoi aspetti, rappresenta il potere assoluto del sovrano. In fondo alla sala si trova il trono, piccolo ma molto elegante. La volta al soffitto è stata affrescata con l'opera "La cerimonia della posa della prima pietra della Reggia di Caserta", che riprende l'episodio legato all'apertura dei lavori avvenuto nel 1752.

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La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 13

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Pier Paolo Pasolini discusses the effects Fascism had on Italy. He talks about the city of Sabaudia, built by the fascist government on the reclaimed marshland of the ancient Pontine Marshes (Agro Pontino) and how later, what took hold was the culture of consumerism.

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Caption 37 [it]: che in fondo non ce ne siamo resi conto;
Caption 37 [en]: that deep down we didn't realize it;

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La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 5

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Pasolini talks about how he moved from literature to cinema, and how his ideas about language changed. He talked about providing Italians with an opportunity to demonstrate racism, perhaps for the first time, with his movie, Accattone.

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Caption 17 [it]: Ma neanche questa è, in fondo, una spiegazione totale.
Caption 17 [en]: But not even this, after all, is a total explanation.

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La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 2

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Pasolini talks about his first book of poetry and what he realized about his country when it was published in 1942. He explains why reviewers wouldn't touch it.

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Caption 24 [it]: In fondo, io ho preso il Friuli
Caption 24 [en]: All in all, I chose Friuli

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L'Italia che piace - Stile di vita - Part 5

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

We move on to Biella, northwest of Milan, where the quality of the water contributes to the excellent quality of the woolen fabrics produced by the historical Zegna company.

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Caption 4 [it]: Lui fondò il lanificio nel millenovecentodieci
Caption 4 [en]: He founded the woolen mill in nineteen ten

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L'Italia che piace - Territori - Part 8

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

There are different reasons one chooses to walk a path. The important thing is to feel the need to undertake it. It's not like a stroll in the park, but rather a challenge to one's body, mind, and spirit.

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Caption 6 [it]: Prepararlo a fondo in tutti i suoi aspetti,
Caption 6 [en]: to plan it thoroughly in all its aspects,

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Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 16

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

We've come to the end of this journey to find Valentina. Philip Rembrandt continues to wait, and Valentina never forgets him.

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Caption 41 [it]: [Fondo regionale per il cinema e l'audiovisivo]
Caption 41 [en]: [Regional fund for cinema and audiovisual works]

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Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 14

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Crepax's stories were based on imagination and vision. In those years, artists contaminated one another's works, and there was even a curious connection between Crepax's Ciao Valentina and Antonioni's Blow-Up.

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Caption 28 [it]: scopre che sul fondo ci sono i dettagli
Caption 28 [en]: discovers that in the background there are the details

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Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Filmmakers Tinto Brass and Giuseppe Tornatore comment on how some elements of expressivity are shared between comic strips and the cinema.

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Caption 5 [it]: ha fatto da sempre e che il cinema, in fondo,
Caption 5 [en]: have always done, and which cinema, essentially,

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Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

This documentary is about Guido Crepax, the creator of a famous fumetto (comic strip) that came out in 1965. The main characters are Philip Rembrandt, an art critic, and Valentina Rosselli, a photojournalist.

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Caption 3 [it]: [Opera realizzata con il sostegno della Regione Lazio - Fondo regionale per il cinema e l'audiovisivo]
Caption 3 [en]: [Work created with the support of the Lazio Region - Regional fund for cinema and audiovisuals]

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Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 6

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Although as an athlete, Margherita did make some compromises she felt she had to during the decades of Italian Fascism, she also took a stand against it, risking expulsion from school.

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Caption 14 [it]: di giocare a soldati, in fondo.
Caption 14 [en]: to play at being soldiers, all in all.

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In giro per l'Italia - Roma Il Colosseo

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Fulvio tells us plenty of interesting things about the history of one of the symbols of Rome, the Colosseum. To begin with, it wasn't always called the "Colosseum."

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Caption 16 [it]: quanto il monumento che vedete in fondo a questa via
Caption 16 [en]: as much as the monument you see at the end of this road,

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Illuminate - Rita Levi Montalcini - Part 10

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Rita Levi Montalcini doesn't feel like she made any sacrifices in her life, including not having a family. She had a clear vision of what she wanted out of life, and she followed it.

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Caption 51 [it]: E le cose programmate andavano fino in fondo tutte quante.
Caption 51 [en]: And every last one of the planned things went all the way to the end.

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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 79 [it]: [Opera realizzata con il sostegno della Regione Lazio- Fondo regionale per il cinema e l'audiovisivo]
Caption 79 [en]: [A work created with the support of the Lazio Region - Regional Fund for cinema and audiovisuals]

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Vera e Giuliano - Montaldo - Part 11

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Inti, who was the 9-year-old grandson of Giuliano and Vera, went to see them as they were filming in China. They put him to work and the experience had a huge influence on him.

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Caption 30 [it]: nell'altro in fondo c'era qui messo [sic] il trono
Caption 30 [en]: in the other one, at the end, the throne was placed

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