Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
By popular request, Manara is back with some new adventures. Everything is in place for a joyous celebration, with wedding bells, but is it too good to be true?
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
Palermo faces the sea and has a very long history of immigration. The narrator interviews a young woman whose great grandfather came to Sicily from Sudan. She is involved in educating immigrants from Africa and Asia. Pitrè was also highly involved in education.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
Giuseppe Pitrè loved attending performances of chivalric folk plays in Palermo. This segment follows a marionette player at Palermo's Opera dei Pupi, the same theater where Pitrè went to see folk epics.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
A beach party concludes this episode, and season. Love is in the air!
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Emotions are running high in this segment and we're hoping that Lara gets found, and that she's alive.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
A woman performs a traditional Sicilian ritual involving the sticking of pins into an onion, accompanied by prayers, in order to bring back the boyfriend of her suppliant.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The tension is almost unbearable for everyone. But when the going gets tough, the tough get going.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
We get a taste of what life is like at police headquarters without Luca. We also see that Lara learned some bad habits from Luca, going off on her own on a hunch.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
Giuseppe Pitrè received his degree in medicine in 1865. His patients, among Palermo's poorest, provided him with a wealth of ethnographic material.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
It's time for Luca to say goodbye to his colleagues and friends. It's a sad moment for everyone.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
There are plenty of people—women, actually— to send Luca off on his bus, but he keeps looking around for a certain someone to show up...
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Monopoly, the board game invented in the US in 1903, is used to explain monetary policies and Italy's current financial woes.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
The segment concentrates on the richness of the Sicilian dialect, a dialect which is less and less spoken. The narrator interviews two poets who recite their works in Sicilian, providing insights into the language.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
In this segment, we see a flashback to Iolanda's murder. She was an honest woman through and through. And it looks like Manara confirms his resignation, now that the case has been solved.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
What would the police do without Lara's aunt Caterina? She knows just where to look to get precious information about the case.
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