Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Oriana is having to deal with some major changes in her life that will have a long-lasting effect on her.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
After her miscarriage, Oriana goes to work in the Milan office, far from Panagulis. But then she gets some news about Greece that spurs her to action.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Elections are held, and Panagulis becomes a member of parliament. He then has to testify at an important trial for the crimes of the junta.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Alekos figures out how to obtain some important evidence against the government, and discusses things with Oriana on the way to the airport, where she'll take a flight back to Italy.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Oriana tells Lisa about finishing her book, Un uomo (a man), and promoting it, especially in non-democratic countries. She travels to Iran in 1979 to interview the new leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, and to talk to someone who wants to translate her book.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Despite huge obstacles, Oriana finally manages to interview Ayatollah Khomeini. The controversial encounter contributed to making Oriana Fallaci worldwide famous.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lisa finally feels comfortable leaving Oriana at the hospital and goes back to the house to watch some interviews with the journalist.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Soon after the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers in New York City, where Oriana happens to be living, she breaks her self-imposed silence and writes an article for the Milanese newspaper Corriere della Sera.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Back in Florence, Oriana has a conversation with her doctor about her condition. Lisa goes to see at her house her and tells her what she's been up to.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lisa and Oriana spend some moments together for the last time. Lisa asks a final question and gets an answer that greatly affects both of them emotionally.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Tuscan
From the heart of Tuscany, famous for its olive oil, Tuscans Lisetta and Alessio talk about how olive oil is made.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Tuscan
Lisetta and Alessio show us how they like to taste their new, freshly pressed olive oil. Since oil can be used uncooked to dress salads, or used as cooking oil, they call the uncooked oil olio crudo (raw oil).
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The first place we visit is practically a theater on a mountain, designed and built to replicate places with religious significance in the Holy Land. The mountain, aptly named, is Sacro Monte (sacred or holy mountain) and is located in Piemonte, to the northwest of Milan.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
We visit the 28th chapel where the scene of Jesus before Pontius Pilate is depicted. We also learn a little secret about how these statues were created.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Vennai is the most important marble quarry in Carrara. Luigi Pasquale talks about when he started working there at about 14 years of age.
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