Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
There's one contestant left, but the questions keep on coming.
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.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
This new episode takes place in the world of beauty contests. Manara seems slightly distracted in both his dreamworld and the real world.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
After the war came TV. It changed everything, and provided a new way to unify the Italian language and teach people reading and writing.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Inspector Rivera is very much appreciated at Police Headquarters, and so is Manara, but for different reasons and by different people.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The segment looks at the Royal Academy of Italy's dictionary of Italian, which was filled with quotes from Mussolini. By the end of World War II, the dictionary had gotten to the letter “C.”
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The team figures out how the crime happened, and Manara has to reveal his more compassionate, sensitive side to bring this investigation to an end.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Marta proves herself to be smart and intuitive. This leads to a new perspective on the case.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Famous battles, movie roles, and 60s pop songs are some of the subject that the contestants get quizzed about.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Mussolini inveighs against the middle class, saying that it is the enemy of fascism. Much of the footage in this segment features EUR, the Rome district that was built in the 30s and 40s.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
With Lara gone, Luca seems to want to make up for lost time, and flirts unabashedly with all the women he comes into contact with. Fortunately, he also gets down to work, and has a man to man talk with one of the suspects.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Little by little some of the suspects are being eliminated, but the situation is far from clear.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
This segment opens with a sort of poem, demonstrating how kids growing up in fascist Italy were expected to behave. Minority groups had a pretty hard time, too.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Officers Barbagallo and Buttafuoco get some good evidence, but Manara doesn't quite appreciate their guessing-game humor. He goes to question the new suspect.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Luca Manara and Marta Rivera are both curious about each other. But Marta has better luck. Manara and Toscani go to see the victim's husband, who learns some things about his wife he hadn't been aware of.
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