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Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 13

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Nel film Le affinità elettive lo stile di Paolo e Vittorio Taviani si fa coerente, essenziale e ricco di densità poetica. Il film è tratto dall’omonimo romanzo di Goethe nel quale si racconta del conflitto tra ragione e passione, progetto e natura, nell'intrecciarsi di due coppie e del loro sentimento amoroso.

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Benvenuti in Galera - Bollate, Milano - Part 6

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

In this part, we see an excerpt from a job interview with one of the inmates at Bollate. The young man tells about the different detention experiences he had had before coming to Bollate.

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Caption 48 [it]: E sì, sì, questo sì, ha ragione, è una soddisfazione.
Caption 48 [en]: And yes, yes, yes, you're right, it is a satisfaction.

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Vocaboliamo - Intelligenza Artificiale - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

By now, we've all heard about artificial intelligence, but how to talk about it in Italian? Marika tells us what we need to know.

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Caption 13 [it]: Per questa ragione,
Caption 13 [en]: For this reason,

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La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 10

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Still on the beach, Pasolini asks more people their opinions on divorce, which became legal in 1970. The second part of this segment is part of a 1969 episode of Processo alla tappa, a TV talk show devoted to the Giro d'Italia (the Tour of Italy), a famous, 21-stage bike race.

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Caption 40 [it]: non c'è nessuna cosa [ragione] di stare insieme.
Caption 40 [en]: there is no reason to stay together.

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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 11 [it]: Qual è la vera ragione?
Caption 11 [en]: What's the real reason?

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Guido Crepax - Cercando Valentina - Part 5

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Crepax's Valentina was an intriguing character because she openly reflected the sexual freedom of the late sixties and was attractive to both men and women. It was very "in" to be seen walking around with an issue of "Linus," an Italian comics magazine published in Italy beginning in 1965.

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Caption 61 [it]: e, soprattutto, per la stessa ragione.
Caption 61 [en]: and above all, for the same reason.

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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 48 [it]: Voglio trovare una ragione in un ordine.
Caption 48 [en]: I want to find a reason for an order.

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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 4 [it]: che poi è la ragione per la quale, alla fine, ha avuto il Nobel.
Caption 4 [en]: which, besides, is the reason why, in the end, she was awarded the Nobel.

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La pittura più bella del mondo - La Resurrezione di Piero della Francesca - Part 14

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

We learn more about how and why Piero's Resurrection was moved from its original position. It's fascinating.

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Caption 4 [it]: come mai, per quale ragione,
Caption 4 [en]: how come, for what reason,

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Vera e Giuliano - Montaldo - Part 9

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

What works in the relationship between Vera and Giuliano is partly the fact that they complement each other, like yin and yang. They talk about a biographical movie they made about Giordano Bruno, a 16th-century Italian philosopher and cosmological theorist, with Gian Maria Volonté.

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Caption 32 [it]: Hai ragione, Vera.
Caption 32 [en]: You are right, Vera.

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 1 - Part 30

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

The episode closes with one of Domenico Modugno's most famous songs, Tu si' 'na cosa grande (you are something great to me), as Mimmo muses about the present and the future.

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Caption 30 [it]: O forse avevano ragione mia madre e mio padre,
Caption 30 [en]: Or maybe my mother and father were right,

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Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 14

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Isabelle Huppert talks (in French) about the craziness of the film and the Taviani brothers talk about the character of their male protagonist and why they set the film in Tuscany, even though the story is German.

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Caption 3 [it]: [In ogni caso sembra esaltare le virtù della ragione e del controllo di se stessi,]
Caption 3 [en]: [In any case it seems to exalt the virtues of reason and self-control,]

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COVID-19 - 5) I tamponi

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

If you have never been tested for Covid-19, Giuditta and Marino give a good description of the process. And their youngest son had to be very brave.

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Caption 72 [it]: dicendogli: "Hai ragione amore, capisco,
Caption 72 [en]: telling him: "You're right, love, I understand,

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 1 - Part 6

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Domenico goes to the Experimental Center where there is a sea of candidates waiting their turns to go in and take the entrance exam. He meets a friendly guy named Riccardo Pazzaglia. He also meets a girl who is rather nervous and feeling insecure.

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Caption 43 [it]: È un'altra cosa. No, hai ragione, e in effetti è più bella, sì, "réalisateur".
Caption 43 [en]: It's a whole different thing. No, you're right, and in fact it's nicer, yes: "réalisateur."

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Fratelli Taviani - La passione e l'utopia - Part 11

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

The political vision of the Taviani brothers comes through in their movies, especially Allonsanfàn. The choices they made in the story were simply a reflection of their thinking at the time, not because the movies themselves were affiliated with a particular political party.

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Caption 29 [it]: capisce che il mondo è ca'... cambia e... ed ha ragione!
Caption 29 [en]: He understands that the world has chan'... changes and... and he's right!

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