Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Crepax loved playing at battles and would change the outcomes, using his friends to fine-tune the moves. He had some famous personalities as willing participants in the games, too.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Guido Crepax's son Antonio talks about the day Antonio Custra was killed in May of 1977, during an armed demonstration in Milan. This was during the so-called anni di piombo (years of lead), a period of social turmoil, political violence and upheaval that lasted from the late 1960s until the late 1980s, marked by a wave of both far-left and far-right incidents of political terrorism and violent clashes. Many demonstrators were arrested, but Antonio Crepax managed not to get loaded onto a paddy wagon.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Just as in Cubist art, Crepax would design his figures to be seen from various points of view simultaneously. Sometimes he would use small windows to attract attention rather than making them larger.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Who was the model for Valentina? Certainly, the actress Louise Brooks who portrayed Lulu in the movie Pandora's Box directed by G.W Pabst (based on two plays by Frank Wedekind), but also Crepax's wife, Luisa Mandelli.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Crepax's stories were based on imagination and vision. In those years, artists contaminated one another's works, and there was even a curious connection between Crepax's Ciao Valentina and Antonioni's Blow-Up.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Which came first? Blow-Up or Ciao Valentina? Which work stole from the other? In any case, there are some striking similarities.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
We've come to the end of this journey to find Valentina. Philip Rembrandt continues to wait, and Valentina never forgets him.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono goes to talk with the Scognamiglios, where Teresa had worked as a maid.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono and Aragona talk to different residents of the building where Teresa was killed. Everyone has something to say about her.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lojacano can't wait to have some time with his daughter, but she has other plans. Pisanelli goes to see his friar friend, Leonardo, at the monastery.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono, Romano, and Di Nardo go to talk to Teresa's husband again. He reveals the reason for the fight he had had with Giacomo. The team goes back to the building where the Scognomiglios live and they run into the ex-door person.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono would like to talk to Giacomo Scognamiglio, but his mother says he is out. He then goes to talk to Signor Vassallo downstairs in the same building.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Carmen Esposito tells the police everything she knows. Then Lojacono meets with Aragona and Palma at the DA's office to discuss the case.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono takes his daughter Marinella to Letizia's trattoria and the two women hit it off. Ottavia reports on the victim's phone records.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lojacono and Di Nardo go to forensics to find out about evidence on the victim's body and clothing. Palma and Piras question Giacomo Scognamiglio, or at least, they try.
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