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Me Ne Frego - Il Fascismo e la lingua italiana - Part 8

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

The nineteen twenties ushered in sound in cinema. Italy's L.U.C.E. [L'Unione Cinematografica Educativa or Educational Film Union] was founded in 1924 and generated the fascist regime's cinematic propaganda.

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Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 10

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy Sicilian

Uno dei riti diffusi nella cultura siciliana prevede l'utilizzo di una cipolla e di cinque spilli. Questo rito è accompagnato da una preghiera-scongiuro in dialetto siciliano per l’amore, "Angelo dell’Eterna Luce", in cui sono chiamati a raccolta Angeli, Arcangeli, Serafini e Cherubini per venire in aiuto di chi scongiura.

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Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 8

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy Sicilian

I profumi, la luce, l'odore del mare della Sicilia sono un richiamo costante, soprattutto quando si decide di lasciare questa terra. Con Pitrè tutto quello che caratterizza la Sicilia viene conservato e ricordato. Soprattutto il dialetto, che negli ultimi anni è stato dimenticato portando la perdita dell'identità regionale.

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La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 12

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

Pasolini talks about the gates to the city of Orte. They may be simple, and built by unnamed men, but that doesn't mean they don't have value to protect. He moves on to talk about Sabaudia, a city built by the fascist regime, on reclaimed marshland, roughly halfway between Rome and Naples.

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Caption 36 [it]: immersa in una specie di grigia luce lagunare,
Caption 36 [en]: immersed in a kind of gray lagoon light,

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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 5 [it]: Non crede che questo giudizio, anche alla luce dei
Caption 5 [en]: Don't you believe that this judgment, even in light of,

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 3

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Chiara tells about how she realized she knew how to read, which then led her to begin writing. She wrote her first "novel" in second grade. Where she grew up, on the outskirts of Rome, influence her writing to a significant degree.

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Caption 80 [it]: "La luce nelle case degli altri",
Caption 80 [en]: "The Light in Other People's Houses,"

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Moscati, l'amore che guarisce - EP 2 - Part 18

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Elena goes to see Giuseppe together with little Antonio. She notices right away that the apartment is empty. At the hospital, one of Mussolini's federal agents is visiting and gives Moscati some troubling news.

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Caption 29 [it]: Portatela alla luce,
Caption 29 [en]: Bring it to the light,

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Moscati, l'amore che guarisce - EP 2 - Part 9

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

As her condition worsens, Cloe tells Giuseppe about the child she had abandoned, and makes him promise to find him.

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Caption 40 [it]: Passa e luce e 'int' all'acqua s'ammira [napoletano: fa passare la sua luce nell'acqua e si ammira]
Caption 40 [en]: He casts his light onto the water and admires his reflection

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Illuminate - Rita Levi Montalcini - Part 7

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Rita Levi Montalcini was a strong proponent of education and instruction as the means to gain freedom. She was also an example of it. This segment describes a visit to women in prison, and the obstacles Montalcini had to face, as a woman and as a Jew, during the Nazi-Fascist regime.

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Caption 49 [it]: finalmente vede la luce.
Caption 49 [en]: finally sees the light.

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Moscati, l'amore che guarisce - EP1 - Part 15

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Giorgio goes to see Cloe perform, but afterwards, he makes an important decision. Giuseppe finally finds Aniello, who is not doing well at all.

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Caption 2 [it]: Passa e luce e 'int'a ll'acqua se 'mmira [napoletano: fa passare la sua luce nell'acqua e si ammira]
Caption 2 [en]: Lets its light fall onto the water and admires itself

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Moscati, l'amore che guarisce - EP1 - Part 13

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Moscati risks his life to save some of the patients from the hospital. It took courage and patience.

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Caption 43 [it]: di luce. C'è la luce, c'è tanta luce
Caption 43 [en]: of light. There is a light. There is a lot of light,

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Me Ne Frego - Il Fascismo e la lingua italiana - Part 15

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

The narrator goes over the vanishingly small number of expressions coined during Mussolini's time that are still in use today. The song that gives the series its name is provided in full.

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Caption 24 [it]: [Una produzione Istituto Luce Cinecittà]
Caption 24 [en]: [A production of the Istituto Luce Cinecittà]

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Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 15

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

The documentary comes to a close with an interview regarding a prison cell used during the Inquisition. The cell bears the graffiti of its inmates. Pitrè had laboriously uncovered the graffiti, but it was only rediscovered in the 1970s by the writer Leonardo Sciascia and the interviewee in this segment, Giuseppe Quatriglio, who used Pitrè's writing to find it.

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Caption 14 [it]: Naturalmente l'occhio si è dovuto abituare alla poca luce,
Caption 14 [en]: Naturally, the eyes had to become accustomed to the low light,

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Dottor Pitrè - e le sue storie - Part 7

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy Sicilian

Saint Rosalia (1130–1166), recognized by her crown of roses, is Palermo's patron saint. The video shows the July 14 parade in honor of the saint, and a young man who credits his cure from a grave illness to Saint Rosalia.

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Caption 29 [it]: Proprio... portato via dal, dal buio verso la luce.
Caption 29 [en]: Actually... taken away, from, from darkness to light.

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