Italian for Beginners 2000

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Comedy Drama Romance

Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives. The film, which unspools the connections and family drama shared between the students, complies with several aesthetic principles of Dogme 95 movement.

Release Date 2000-12-07
Runtime 1h 58m
Directors Lone Scherfig, Jørgen Johansson, Niels Reiermann
Producers Peter Aalbæk Jensen, Ib Tardini, Karen Bentzon, Gert Duve Skovlund, Vinca Wiedemann, Marianne Moritzen, Lars von Trier
Writers Maeve Binchy, Lone Scherfig