Dec 07, 2000
118 min
Full-HD

Italian for Beginners (2000)

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.

Category

Comedy Drama Romance

Country

Denmark

Companies

Zentropa Entertainments DR

Peter Gantzler

Jørgen Mortensen

Ann Eleonora Jørgensen

Karen

Anders W. Berthelsen

Andreas

Anette Støvelbæk

Olympia

Lars Kaalund

Hal-Finn

Sara Indrio Jensen

Giulia

Karen-Lise Mynster

Real Estate Dealer

Rikke Wölck

Nurse

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