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Benvenuti in Galera - Bollate, Milano - Part 3

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

In the restaurant inside Bollate prison, activities to be carried out are planned. The work in the kitchen must be well organized to offer good service.

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Caption 11 [it]: Mica sei esperto di cetrioli.
Caption 11 [en]: You're not an expert in cucumbers, are you?

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La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 14

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

As the credits role in this final segment, we hear a song written and performed by Fabrizio De André (together with Massimo Bubola. Una storia sbagliata (a story all wrong) was commissioned for a 1980 TV show about Pasolini's death, called Dietro il processo (behind the trial). You can hear the entire song here, while here you'll find the complete lyrics in Italian.

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Caption 7 [it]: È una storia mica male insabbiata
Caption 7 [en]: It's a story pretty well covered up

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La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 9

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

In a Q & A, Pasolini explains to a journalist what he means when he refers to the elite. In another clip, he asks people on the beach about sex.

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Caption 22 [it]: mica all'élite classica.
Caption 22 [en]: not at all the classical elite.

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Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 13

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

In this segment, Margherita talks about her choice not to have children and also discusses her position regarding God. She can't prove he exists nor can she prove he doesn't.

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Caption 33 [it]: perché non posso mica dimostrare
Caption 33 [en]: because it's not as if I can prove

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Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 3

Difficulty: 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.

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Caption 40 [it]: Margherita mica accettava di essere trattata così.
Caption 40 [en]: Margherita did not accept being treated like that.

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Vivere - Un'avventura di Vittorio De Sica - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

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).

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Caption 56 [it]: Non sono mica come te
Caption 56 [en]: It's not as if I'm like you,

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Illuminate - Rita Levi Montalcini - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Rita Levi Montalcini dedicated a great part of her life to young people, especially young researchers, and though she had no children of her own, she felt that all kinds of young people were like sons and daughters to her.

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Caption 42 [it]: E guardi che la libertà non è mica una predica, eh.
Caption 42 [en]: And look, freedom is not a lecture or anything, huh.

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Fuori era primavera - Viaggio nell'Italia del lockdown - Part 16

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

We come to the end of this story of the lockdown in Italy, told through amateur videos, all gathered and coordinated by Gabriele Salvatores.

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Caption 16 [it]: Andrà tutto bene, mica tanto.
Caption 16 [en]: Everything is going to be all right, not so much.

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Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 23

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

The Taviani brothers reveal some tricks used during the filming of The Night of San Lorenzo and tell us how they managed to combine a particular sequence of the film with the cornerstone of Greek literature, The Iliad.

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Caption 3 [it]: No, ma non ci so' [toscano: sono] mica problemi.
Caption 3 [en]: No, but there's no problem at all.

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L'arte della cucina - I Luoghi del Mondo - Part 13

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

What Gualtiero Marchesi learned from the Troisgros brothers in Roanne, was, above all, the importance of simplicity.

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Caption 9 [it]: ma non è mica vero, perché poi non, non è così,
Caption 9 [en]: but it's not really true, because then it's not, it's not like that,

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L'arte della cucina - I Luoghi del Mondo - Part 5

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Is beauty in the eye of the beholder? That's what they say--but to Gualtiero Marchesi, that's not necessarily so. Sometimes beautiful is beautiful, period. As we've seen in other segments, cooking as an art form is a topic that's close to this chef's heart.

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Caption 13 [it]: ma è mica vero. Quand'è bello è bello, no.
Caption 13 [en]: but it isn't at all true. When it's beautiful it's beautiful, right?

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Fellini Racconta - Un Autoritratto Ritrovato - Part 14

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Fellini looks back and admits that he didn't believe he had what it takes to be a film director. Here we see him in action. He definitely had what it takes.

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Caption 37 [it]: non è mica proprio un artificio, ah l'hai fatta ieri.
Caption 37 [en]: it's not really artificial, oh, you did it yesterday.

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Fellini Racconta - Un Autoritratto Ritrovato - Part 7

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Fellini is at Cannes for the festival and screening of La Dolce Vita. He tells of his ironic encounters with unusual characters, who complain about the oddity of Fellini's movie characters.

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Caption 16 [it]: e poi, francamente, non ho... non so' [sono] mica ancora riuscito a dormire!
Caption 16 [en]: and then, frankly, I haven't... I haven't been able to sleep at all!

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