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Vivere - Un'avventura di Vittorio De Sica - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Vittorio De Sica ha fatto molti tipi di cinema, sia come attore che come regista, e ogni volta ha fatto centro. Tuttavia, la critica eleogiava solo le sue commedie e non apprezzava film più impegnati. Durante le riprese, Vittorio De Sica era il migliore a dirigere gli attori, con i quali rideva, ballava, piangeva e cantava.

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Adriano Olivetti - La forza di un sogno Ep. 1 - Part 22

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Nonostante non sia più alla guida della sua fabbrica, Adriano ha trovato il modo di attualizzare il suo progetto. Da un'azienda agricola sta costruendo una vera e propria comunità.

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Ritratti - Fabiola Gianotti - Part 19

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Durante una visita al Centro di controllo del CERN, si assiste all’attività di ricerca scientifica e alle collisioni di particelle ad altissima energia. Il racconto evidenzia l’entusiasmo per le scoperte, come quella del bosone di Higgs, e l’idea che l’Universo sia ancora in gran parte sconosciuto.

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Professioni e mestieri - La chef Sandra Stefani - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Sandra racconta le difficoltà iniziali negli Stati Uniti e come, imparando l’inglese da autodidatta, sia riuscita a cogliere le opportunità del Paese. Partendo da un lavoro umile nella ristorazione, in poco tempo è cresciuta professionalmente fino a diventare dining room manager.

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Non è mai troppo tardi - EP1 - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Dopo l'assegnazione della cattedra, Alberto si reca al carcere minorile per cominciare le sue lezioni. Non si può dire che sia stata una bellissima accoglienza... Intanto, la ricerca di Ida continua, ma sembra davvero essere sparita.

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L'Oriana - film - Part 16

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Alekos Panagulis continua la sua lotta contro il governo, ma qualcuno cerca sempre di fermarlo. Oriana pensa che il modo migliore per continuare la resistenza sia andare in Italia.

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Romanzo Italiano - Campania - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Valeria Parrella talks about her intense and contradictory bond with Naples and the neighborhood she lives in. The full-time innovative Donna Assunta school overlooks the sea, but faces Nisida, the juvenile detention center. Naples, she says, is not a city you can just live in and ignore, and has become for her an inexhaustible source of literary inspiration.

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Caption 38 [it]: Cioè, è sia un personaggio letterario
Caption 38 [en]: That is, it's both a literary character

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Professioni e mestieri - La chef Sandra Stefani - Part 5

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The story of Sandra continues, a Tuscan chef who emigrated to the United States, who established herself in Miami with authentic Tuscan cuisine. Thanks to her continuous ties with Italy, she keeps her roots alive, even cooking for Barack Obama.

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Caption 43 [it]: sembra che non se ne sia mai andata dalla Toscana,
Caption 43 [en]: it seems like she never left Tuscany,

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Ritratti - Fabiola Gianotti - Part 8

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

In this part, the encounter with physicist Fabiola Gianotti at CERN is retraced, highlighting her scientific talent, humanity and prominent role in international research. Between personal memories and reflections on theoretical and experimental physics, the importance of collaboration between the two fields emerges, recalled by the example of the discovery of the Higgs boson.

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Caption 51 [it]: sia un caso ovvio.
Caption 51 [en]: is an obvious case.

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 12

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Alessandro Piperno comes from a mixed Jewish family and recounts how he learned, at an early age, to cherish the relationship between Jerusalem and Rome, where Christianity and Judaism blend. Thus we come to the end of this episode about the region of Lazio.

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Caption 52 [it]: con l'illusione che Roma sia nostra.
Caption 52 [en]: with the illusion that Rome is ours.

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 10

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Alessandro explains some things about the characters in his books and tells a story about when he won the Strega award. The Strega Award is the most important Italian literary award. It gets its name from one of its creators, the owner of the company producing Strega, a brand of an amaro (after-dinner, digestive bitters).

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Caption 64 [it]: non ci sia differenza tra un uomo in rovina e uno in ascesa".
Caption 64 [en]: there is no difference between a man in ruins and one in ascendancy."

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 6

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Melania Gaia Mazzucco talks about one of her novels set in seventeenth-century Trastevere, quite a different place than what we see today. Although she has traveled the world, Mazzucco comes from generations of romani di Roma (Romans from Rome).

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Caption 2 [it]: che sia difficilissimo trovare romani veri,
Caption 2 [en]: that it is very difficult to find real Romans,

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 5

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Annalena continues talking with Paolo Giordano, who talks about how places such as Afghanistan and Apulia have influenced his writing.

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Caption 19 [it]: Poi, credo sia stato veramente quel libro
Caption 19 [en]: Then, I think it really was that book

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Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Journalist Annalena Benini introduces us to different writers from different places in Italy, beginning with Rome, where she interviews Chiara Gamberale, a novelist.

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Caption 51 [it]: sia con amore sia con odio.
Caption 51 [en]: both with love and with hate.

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Caravaggio - EP1 - Part 16

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

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We learn of the death of Francesco Cenci from a conversation between the Cardinal and one of his guests. Michele arrives too, at a reception, where his latest painting is on display. He makes an impression as someone who speaks his mind.

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Caption 6 [it]: Tant'è vero che si sospetta sia opera della moglie e della figlia, Beatrice.
Caption 6 [en]: So much so that one suspects it's the work of his wife and of his daughter, Beatrice.

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