Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Manzi goes before the Board of Education. Ida finds some letters in Alberto's coat pocket. Manzi explains to the board members why he finds it impossible to give his pupils grades.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
It's a difficult moment for Camilla, and there are tensions at home, which Livietta perceives quite well. Camilla talks to Detective Berardi about Dora's death.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
After a night of intimacy, Ugo and Nora seem to have differing ideas about what it meant. Meanwhile, Iside and Dino are already basking in what they think is the aftermath.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lele and Irene have some awkward moments at dinner and afterwards. Giulio is back at the house with Alice, wondering how the evening went. He can't help saying inappropriate things and Alice finally gets fed up with him.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Vittorio De Sica put himself on the line in order to save his cast and crew, and the film he was making. This final segment describes how he managed to complete La porta del cielo (The Gates of Heaven). The song we hear at the end of this documentary is very famous and was sung by Vittorio De Sica himself for the movie Gli uomini, che mascalzoni... in which he acted. Listen to the entire song here.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Caravaggio is a TV mini-series based on the life of the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. It opens in 1577 when the painter was 5 years old. The plague had just hit and people who were still alive were burning their household possessions.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
This segment recounts how Aldo De Rosa and Margherita met in a park in Florence as kids and later married. Aldo supported her in her scientific work throughout their marriage, which lasted over seventy years.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Father Costa just wants to be left alone and chases Friar Marcello away. Luigi finally has his catheter and drainage removed.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Suor Helga is good at reading Giuseppe Moscati's moods and senses something is wrong. Giuseppe knows Elena is suffering on his account but at the same time, he can't help being dedicated to his patients over everything else. He writes Elena a letter and takes it to her house.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The RAI producers are worried about how the show is being received on the outside. They soon get some answers. Manzi is also worried, not so much about the show, but about his position as a teacher.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Camilla is interviewed by the police, and Mr. Rigas, the man she argued with in line for the bus, comes too. Renzo, who is also present, can't understand why Camilla is so profoundly affected by the event.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lele and Irene aren't exactly at ease as they eat their fish dinner. Giulio has the audacity of calling Lele to find out how things are going. Back at home, Maria and Ciccio wonder about their father remarrying and what that would be like.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The general hands De Sica a letter from Goebbels himself but since De Sica can't read German, it is translated for him ad alta voce (out loud). It's an invitation to Venice, which De Sica does not want to accept.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Although as an athlete, Margherita did make some compromises she felt she had to during the decades of Italian Fascism, she also took a stand against it, risking expulsion from school.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Elena tries to keep Luigi from getting too depressed about his situation. He then gets a taste of what his roommates had been telling him about the friar.
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