Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Adriano's illness and hospital stay bring about a pivotal moment for relations between Grazia and her father, and not only them.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Paola makes a quick decision upon meeting Grazia. Karen Bates comes back with some footage for Adriano to look at.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Adriano's new idea is to open a factory in the south of Italy, a very poor part of Italy. Convincing his board is a huge challenge. He takes Karen and her camera around the southern part of the country to scout for locations.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Adriano imagines his new factory and describes the layout to Karen. The workers in Dalmasso's factory are not happy about their working conditions and Mauro manages to placate them. Dalmasso notices his skill in dealing with people and has a new idea of a job for him.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Adriano's son Roberto has an idea he wants to develop, but Adriano is skeptical, at least at first. But Roberto knows how to tempt his father with good cocoa and this leads to an important meeting. While they are out, they discover that Mauro Barale is running for office.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Karen's report to her superiors about Olivetti's plans prompts some serious spying on his operation by the U.S. Mario Tchou explains his ideas to the new team of young engineers.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Adriano goes to Rome to try and get financing for his project. He is unpleasantly surprised to have to deal with someone he knows very well and with whom he had had a falling out.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The factory in Pozzuoli is a success, but the company has taken financial risks, which may be why Adriano is having nightmares. Dalmasso is closely following Adriano's movements.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The laboratory team is all excited as they come up with some great new innovations. They need more funding, however, and decide to demonstrate the results directly to the board.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Karen continues to do her work for the Americans, spying on Olivetti and the Community Movement. Dalmasso and Mauro are seriously trying to undermine Olivetti's efforts to get elected and to bring him to his knees financially.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The election results have come out, and they're disappointing. Grazia gives Adriano all her support, and this gives him the hope he needs to push ahead with his dream.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
At the Olivetti home, it's Christmastime, and there's an air of celebration among the members of the extended family. Karen, who is listening in, is engulfed by feelings of nostalgia for her mother.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Christmas dinner is interrupted by a phone call from the plant, where engineers are working. Karen listens in. She then has an ominous meeting with the Americans.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Karen sends a clear message to Adriano and they meet. She has something important to tell him.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Mauro gets a political slap in the face. Olivetti is undergoing huge financial challenges and risks going under but Adriano doesn't lose hope.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Adriano is on his way to Switzerland. Before he gets on the train, he exchanges a solemn few words with someone who used to be a friend.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
If the name Olivetti is still known today, it's because Adriano Olivetti made an important contribution to the industry of electronics, but also to the ethics of industry in general.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Adriano Celentano with this song continues his campaign of protecting the environment. The references to various disasters, implicitly stated in the very title of the video, accompanies the music and footage of the piece. The song registers the celebrated singer’s emphatic “no” to an energy lobby that favors nuclear power.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Together with Eros Ramazzotti, Adriano Celentano sings the ballad about the street in the outskirts of Milan where Celentano grew up. The street once abutted fields, but over time all the green was built on or paved over. The Via Gluck is named after the 18th century composer Christoph Willibald Gluck.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
Adriano introduces us to his girlfriend, Vladi. She is pretty, sociable and speaks five languages. He talks about their common interests and hopes their relationship will last forever.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
Adriano, a big Palermo soccer fan, highlights important dates and the many name changes for Palermo's beloved stadium.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
Adriano and his girlfriend Vladi demonstrate Jive dancing, a dance that in Italy goes by the name "Boogie Woogie".
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Sicilian
Find out how Adriano spends his day, and how he stays in shape, even though he works in an office.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Adriano visits a Palermo antique dealer, Massimo Sgroi, who also exhibits the work of contemporary artists. Sgroi invites Yabla friends to submit work.
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