Films and series set in Piemonte. And what the Italian sounds like.

A Rai 1 prime-time production set in Turin in which everyone — surgeons, nurses, families — speaks clear standard Italian, with at most a faint northern colouring and no dialect exchanges.

Delivery is at normal conversational speed with the deliberate, well-articulated diction typical of Rai 1 drama; overlap occurs in crowded operating-room and argument scenes but is not the norm.

Everyone speaks standard Italian; Bruno and the Grana villagers carry an Alpine north-western accent with a little local mountain colour, but no shift out of standard Italian.

Unhurried delivery throughout — the two leads speak slowly and singly, with almost no cross-talk or interruption.

Stated languages: dialetto romanesco, italiano

Nearly every character is voiced by the author in dense romanesco — Roman lexicon, truncated verbs and local discourse particles run through both the narration and the dialogue, and a learner trained on standard Italian will lose whole lines rather than single words.

The delivery is famously machine-gun fast, with barely a pause between clauses and the narration cutting across characters mid-sentence.

The Carati family and nearly everyone around them speak standard Italian with Roman and other regional accents; Sicilian and Turin-immigrant characters add local colour without shifting the speech out of standard grammar and lexicon.

Normal Italian conversational speed, with overlapping voices mainly in the crowded family scenes and political meetings; the many two-handers are delivered unhurriedly.

Despite the Turin setting, everyone from the magistrates to the household staff speaks standard Italian with at most a neutral accent; no Piedmontese is spoken as a language.

Normal conversational speed with some overlap in the quarrelsome family and office scenes; the legal exchanges are delivered clearly rather than rushed.

Post-synchronised studio Italian of the period: everyone, including the dubbed English lead, speaks neutral standard Italian, with only light Roman/northern urban colour in a few minor characters.

Normal conversational delivery, clearly enunciated by dubbing, with some overlap in the sparring exchanges between the pianist and the journalist.

Everyone from the countess to the servants speaks clean standard Italian with stage-clear enunciation; the Piedmontese setting leaves no trace in the speech.

Delivery is deliberate and theatrical, one speaker at a time with pauses for emotional weight, and cross-talk is rare even in the argument scenes.

Mimmo and especially his grandmother speak thick Romanesco with local grammar and vocabulary rather than accented standard, and the emigrant strand carries Neapolitan, so a learner with standard Italian loses whole exchanges.

Normal conversational speed with some crowding when the grandmother cuts across her grandson or roadside characters pile in, but delivery is generally clear and one speaker at a time.

Set in Turin and played in standard Italian throughout; at most a light northern intonation on police and family scenes, with no local lexicon.

Normal conversational speed with some overlap in squad-room scenes; the lead's own delivery is deliberate and clipped rather than fast.

Set in Turin and played in standard Italian with a northern accent; at most occasional Piedmontese colouring in minor comic or older characters, never enough to lose a line.

Normal conversational pace with some overlap in the family and staffroom scenes, but the delivery stays clear and unhurried enough to follow.