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La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 14

Difficulty: Advanced

Italy

As the credits role in this final segment, we hear a song written and performed by Fabrizio De André (together with Massimo Bubola. Una storia sbagliata (a story all wrong) was commissioned for a 1980 TV show about Pasolini's death, called Dietro il processo (behind the trial). You can hear the entire song here, while here you'll find the complete lyrics in Italian.

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Caption 7 [it]: È una storia mica male insabbiata
Caption 7 [en]: It's a story pretty well covered up

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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 22 [it]: mica all'élite classica.
Caption 22 [en]: not at all the classical elite.

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Caravaggio - EP1 - Part 18

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

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Caravaggio (as he begins calling himself) and Ranuccio play real tennis. Who's going to win?

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Caption 33 [it]: Guarda che non ho mica tutto il giorno a disposizione per te.
Caption 33 [en]: Look, I hardly have all day at your disposal.

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Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 13

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

In this segment, Margherita talks about her choice not to have children and also discusses her position regarding God. She can't prove he exists nor can she prove he doesn't.

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Caption 33 [it]: perché non posso mica dimostrare
Caption 33 [en]: because it's not as if I can prove

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Illuminate - Margherita Hack - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Margherita Hack made her mark on the University of Trieste, teaching Astronomy there for almost 30 years and linking it with the Observatory. She had to use some drastic means to be recognized, however, being a woman in a man's world. But the balance changed over time, with her help, to involve many more women than before, both as students and researchers.

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Caption 40 [it]: Margherita mica accettava di essere trattata così.
Caption 40 [en]: Margherita did not accept being treated like that.

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Vivere - Un'avventura di Vittorio De Sica - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Vittorio De Sica, along with other filmmakers and actors, does not want to be transferred to Venice, as has been mandated by the State. There, he would have to shoot propaganda movies for the Fascists. Luckily a Catholic film company wants to make a movie about a train of sick and deformed people on their way to seek miracles at the shrine of Our Lady of Loreto, a popular pilgrimage destination in the Marches region. The kind of train that carries pilgrims is called un treno bianco (a white train).

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Caption 56 [it]: Non sono mica come te
Caption 56 [en]: It's not as if I'm like you,

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Moscati, l'amore che guarisce - EP1 - Part 19

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Giorgio is getting settled in his new office and gets an unexpected and unwelcome visitor. Giuseppe has a big evening ahead of him with Elena and her father, but he gets some news he has to take care of and is delayed.

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Caption 37 [it]: Mica si muore di indigestione.
Caption 37 [en]: It's not as if you die from indigestion.

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Illuminate - Rita Levi Montalcini - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Rita Levi Montalcini dedicated a great part of her life to young people, especially young researchers, and though she had no children of her own, she felt that all kinds of young people were like sons and daughters to her.

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Caption 42 [it]: E guardi che la libertà non è mica una predica, eh.
Caption 42 [en]: And look, freedom is not a lecture or anything, huh.

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Moscati, l'amore che guarisce - EP1 - Part 6

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

The evening Giorgio planned to spend with Cloe doesn't turn out as he had hoped. The next day at the hospital, on their first day of work, Giorgio and Giuseppe get to know Sister Helga who rules with an iron fist.

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Caption 59 [it]: Be'? Siamo mica a teatro. Allura [milanese: allora].
Caption 59 [en]: Well? We're not at the theater. Well then.

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Moscati, l'amore che guarisce - EP1 - Part 4

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Moscati has to prove himself at the exam, to demonstrate whether he is just presumptuous or can back it up by knowing what to do with the patient before him. His friend Piromallo waits for him outside, meanwhile.

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Caption 15 [it]: Siamo noi dottori ad essere sotto esame, mica tu.
Caption 15 [en]: We doctors are the ones being examined, not you.

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Non è mai troppo tardi - EP1 - Part 5

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Alberto's friend, Eugenio, is ready to call it quits when it comes to teaching. Alberto is convinced that kids are the future, but even though he made some headway with the kids at the reformatory his first day, there are still huge obstacles.

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Caption 2 [it]: ma non sarà mica l'unica donna rimasta a Roma questa Ida, no?
Caption 2 [en]: But she can't be the only woman left in Rome, this Ida, can she?

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L'Oriana - film - Part 24

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Lisa finally feels comfortable leaving Oriana at the hospital and goes back to the house to watch some interviews with the journalist.

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Caption 36 [it]: Non ho mica più tanto da vivere.
Caption 36 [en]: I don't have so long to live.

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L'Oriana - film - Part 17

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Alekos is having a hard time convincing others of his ideas. Oriana is under pressure from her boss. There is a lot of tension.

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Caption 42 [it]: Va be', non ti serve ora il tuo biglietto, mica devi correre ad Atene.
Caption 42 [en]: OK, you don't need your ticket right now. You don't have to go rushing to Athens.

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L'Oriana - film - Part 16

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Alekos and Oriana have a romantic moment but he is always thinking about his battle against the government. Oriana has her own ideas about how to run a successful resistance.

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Caption 19 [it]: Perché rossa? Non sei mica comunista.
Caption 19 [en]: Why red? You're not even a communist.

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Adriano Olivetti - La forza di un sogno Ep. 1 - Part 21

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Adriano decides to leave running the factory to Marcello and goes off on his own to work on his other projects. But country roads are dangerous in the pouring rain...

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Caption 23 [it]: Eh, non ci si riscalda mica con l'acqua.
Caption 23 [en]: Of course, you can't very well warm yourself up with water.

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