U Sicilianu O Cinema

U Sicilianu O Cinema - Learn Sicilian with movies

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In this podcast we break down and translate movie scenes where the Sicilian language is spoken but Sicilian subtitles are not provided. Do you like this podcast? Show your support by buying me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/USOCAre you studying Sicilian? Try the Udemy Course "Basic Sicilian Language": http://bitly.ws/y5D5Ni sintemu prestu! :)

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Mi canusci a mia? (Do you know me?) - Placido Rizzotto, 2000 14.01.2023 10:46

Happy 2023 to everyone!  In this episode we go to Corleone, but it’s not the fictional Corleone we saw in the Godfather, this is the real story of Placido Rizzotto, a trade union leader murdered by the mafia - the real mafia - in 1948. The movie "Placido Rizzotto", directed in 2000 by Pasquale Scimeca, says a lot about what life was like in Sicily in the late ‘40s specially for the peasant wo...

I rosi ci piaciunu? (Does she like roses?) - Due amici, 2002 07.01.2023 12:22

The movie in this episode is “due amici” (two friends), directed in 2002 by Spiro Scimone and Francesco Sframeli, from #Messina, #Sicily. The voices you’ll hear in this dialogue are the two main characters on their way for a special delivery. Nunzio is in love with a girl and his friend Pino is walking with him to the shop where she works. Nunzio is holding a big bouquet of roses. He’s quite nervo...

Chista é a me casa (This is my home) - Stromboli, 1950 25.12.2022 13:20

The movie in this episode is "Stromboli, Land of God" (Roberto Rossellini, 1950). The voices you'll hear, among the others, are Mario Vitale and Ingrid Bergman! No, she's not gonna speak Sicilian... Everyone else will!

O Bar Vitelli (At the bar Vitelli) - The Godfather, 1972 24.12.2022 13:06

In this first episode we visit Bar Vitelli. This is the only 100% Sicilian scene in the Godfather (1972). The voices you'll hear are Angelo Infanti, Franco Citti and Saro Urzì.