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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 2 - Part 24

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

The winner of Sanremo is announced, and the news travels fast. The winning song makes Italians feel optimistic after the terrible war and postwar periods.

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Caption 34 [it]: Come stai. Ehi! -Eh!
Caption 34 [en]: How are you. Hey! -Yeah!

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 2 - Part 21

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Franco Migliaccio is filled with pessimism and Johnny Dorelli is filled with fear, but Mimmo is feeling very sure of himself at the Sanremo Festival.

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Caption 21 [it]: Guarda dove stai, guarda dove stai, questo è Sanremo.
Caption 21 [en]: Look where you are, look where you are. This is Sanremo.

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 2 - Part 20

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

It's New Year's Eve and Mimmo and Franca celebrate with friends. As promised, Mimmo gets some concert clothes from the Sanremo festival. And then, the big day arrives and Domenico finds himself in the midst of already famous artists.

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Caption 54 [it]: Come stai?
Caption 54 [en]: How are you?

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 2 - Part 15

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Mimmo doesn't want to have to change the lyrics of his latest song. Riccardo and Franco try to pressure him to do it, for the money. Franco is out of work, and Mimmo wants to help him.

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Caption 43 [it]: Ma ci sta dice [pugliese: ma che stai dicendo] Franca? Non ti ci mettere pure tu, eh.
Caption 43 [en]: But what are you saying, Franca? Don't put your two cents in, huh.

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 2 - Part 14

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Mimmo has realized that Franca wasn't the problem blocking him from songwriting. He misses her terribly, in fact, and his friend Franco comes up with an idea.

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Caption 21 [it]: No, gli volevo chiedere... così, come stavi, se stai bene, se stai male.
Caption 21 [en]: No, I wanted to ask him... just like that, how you were doing, if you were doing well or doing badly.

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 2 - Part 13

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Franca is on tour and gets word about a new song of Mimmo's. She says she doesn't care at all, but it's clear she does.

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Caption 22 [it]: Statte cu' mme [napoletano: stai con me]
Caption 22 [en]: Stay with me

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 2 - Part 12

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Domenico's song Musetto is playing on the radio, and Franca hears it and realizes it's about her. He has dinner with his father who is in town, and some thorny subjects come up.

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Caption 41 [it]: Ma che sta a dice [pugliese: stai dicendo], papà?
Caption 41 [en]: But what are you saying, Dad?

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 2 - Part 10

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

It's coming on Christmas, and Mimmo is strolling through the street market. He spies an old friend who is clearly not doing so well. Domenico has been in that situation many times in the past and doesn't hesitate to "pay it forward."

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Caption 7 [it]: Come stai?
Caption 7 [en]: How are you?

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 2 - Part 9

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Mimmo is stuck at home taking care of household matters, trying unsuccessfully to write new songs, and Franca is getting work and is out and about. This situation of dissatisfaction and imbalance leads to harsh words.

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Caption 29 [it]: Sei tu che stai sempre in giro,
Caption 29 [en]: You're the one who is always out and about,

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 2 - Part 5

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Mimmo is describing the moment in which he and Franca take their relationship to another level and when he also finds the rhyme he'd been looking for in the song he'd been writing. Later, during the recording session of Vecchio frac, he finds out the censors have been at work and want him to change the lyrics.

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Caption 66 [it]: Ma ci cazzo stai a dice [pugliese: ma che cazzo dici], scusami?
Caption 66 [en]: But what the fuck are you saying, sorry?

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 2 - Part 3

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

This visit to Gramitto is a bit different from the others. Mimmo has a big surprise for Franca.

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Caption 21 [it]: Quindi ci stai dicendo che ti interessano le nostre canzoni?
Caption 21 [en]: So you're saying that you're interested in our songs?

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 2 - Part 2

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Mimmo is very happy to be back in Italy, and with Franca. His next task is to audition for Gramitto in Milan.

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Caption 18 [it]: Va be', sei contento che stai nello spettacolo?
Caption 18 [en]: OK. Are you happy that you're in the show?

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 2 - Part 1

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Domenico is back from cold Canada. He goes to see his friends at Cinecittà to catch up.

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Caption 24 [it]: Come stai?
Caption 24 [en]: How are you?

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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 19 [it]: Si pure tu staje tremmanno [napoletano: Se anche tu stai tremando]
Caption 19 [en]: If you are also trembling

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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno - Ep. 1 - Part 26

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

The piazza where Mimmo and Franca perform is deserted, but everything changes once he starts singing a Tarantella. Later on, Mimmo takes Franca to one of his favorite spots.

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Caption 53 [it]: "Ce sta a face? Torna Mimì" [pugliese: che stai facendo? Torna Mimì]
Caption 53 [en]: "What are you doing? Come back, Mimì."

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