Sulla mia pelle

Film NightItalian
Written By Sean Price

Tonight’s film comes from Italy.

Sulla mia pelle (2018)

Whether you’re learning Italian or just looking for something to watch, Sulla mia pelle is an important film.

In October 2009, Stefano Cucchi died in police custody. Stefano was the 148th person to die in Italian police custody in 2009, a year in which the total figure reached 172. The officers who assaulted Stefano were initially absolved of any wrongdoing, but the valiant efforts of Stefano’s family and lawyer saw three carabinieri charged with manslaughter in 2017. To help those fighting similar battles, and in the hope of ensuring no one else dies at the hands of police custody, Stefano’s family have built l’Associazione Stefano Cucchi Onlus. The association seeks to defend the human and civil rights of citizens.

If you’re learning Italian, the following is an important article on Stefano Cucchi and police brutality in Italy :

Non solo Stefano Cucchi : perché è importante parlare degli abusi di polizia in Italia

If you’re unsure when and how to use subtitles, advice can be found here :

How to Use Subtitles to Learn a Language

If you’re interested in learning Italian, there’s a How to Learn Languages guide (eBook), and if you prefer the video format, How to Learn Italian is also available as an online course :

How to Learn Italian - eBook

How to Learn Italian - Course

Take care, and enjoy the process.

Sean Price

This article was written by Sean Price, the Founder of How to Learn Languages.

When he's not teaching English as a foreign language, he creates eBooks and Courses that make learning languages affordable and enjoyable for anyone.

He learnt French in 2018 during a study abroad year at the Sorbonne, before completing a degree in History at the University of Leeds with First Class Honours in the summer of the following year.

During his final year, he taught himself Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Catalan, as part of dissertation research into fascism in Europe during the 1930s.

Although he says ‘learnt’ and ‘taught himself’ in the past tense, he also says one of the joys of learning a language is that there’s always more to learn.

More recently, he's been teaching himself German, Mandarin Chinese, and Russian.

Since moving to Vietnam to teach English in 2022, he's been enjoying learning Vietnamese. In less than one and a half years learning Vietnamese, he was able to achieve Level 5 (the highest being Level 6) of the official Vietnamese proficiency exam of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities at the National University, Hanoi (Trường Đại học Khoa học Xã hội và Nhân văn - Đại học Quốc gia Hà Nội).

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