Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
From the gardener, Michele, we learn that the dead professor was not well liked. Rubino lets us know about her soured friendship with Manara at the police academy.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Manara arrives at his hotel, and the clerk is curt with him until she learns he's the new commissioner. Manara and the deceased are the topics discussed by Rubino and her aunt.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Rubino, the new inspector, can't stand being in the same room with Manara. And when he doesn't even remember why, she really gets angry. But then they get some interesting news from the morgue...
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Anna takes us to Paris, to a cold, dark attic room where she tells the beginning of the tragic but very romantic story of La Bohème.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Commissioner Manara meets up with Lara Rubino, his old classmate from the police academy. She's less than happy to see him and slaps him right across the face.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Manara meets his new boss and from the outset there's tension. We learn that Manara was transferred to his new post because of an affair between Manara and the wife of his former boss.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Commissioner Manara arrives on the scene of the supposed suicide. He questions a witness, and talks to the victim's doctor, and to the medical examiner, who turns out to be an attractive woman who has no problem with shyness.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Il Commissioner Manara is an Italian TV series set in the Maremma (southern Tuscany), which centers on Luca Manara, an unorthodox and highly seductive, newly arrived police commissioner, played by Guido Caprino.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Baciami ancora (Kiss Me Again) is the sequel to L’ultimo bacio (The Last Kiss), directed by Muccino and released ten years ago. It follows the same group of friends as they face infidelity, midlife crises, new love...
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
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Manuel gets some advice about his inheritance and talks about who might have had something to gain by his parents' death.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Manuel and his brother argue about their inheritance. Who should get the house? Who should get the photography studio? Video provided by pa74music.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy Neapolitan
In this scene from the 1960 film He Who Stops Is Lost. Totò plays the part of Antonio Guardalvecchia, and attempts to court Giulia. She's the sister of the president, and he courts her in order to get a job in the head office. The scene on the balcony recalls Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Manuel is on the phone, being dunned, and he doesn’t know how repay his debts. Video provided by pa74music.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Tuscan
Life is Beautiful is the 1997 dramatic comedy, directed by and starring Roberto Benigni. It received three Oscars. The film takes place in a concentration camp in Nazi Germany. Guido (Benigni) in order to protect his son, pretends that the Jewish deportation and the war are just a game, with the final prize: a tank.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
La Strada (The Road) is a 1954 film directed by Federico Fellini, with Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina. The film was partly shot at the famous Saltanò Circus, with actors and extras taken from that circus. Fellini changed the name of Anthony Quinn’s character from Saltanò into Zampanò, maybe for copyright reasons. The picture won an Oscar for best foreign film in 1957. It was the year the foreign prize was instituted and it allowed Fellini to break out from national boundaries.
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