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.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.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.
- Awards
- 21 wins & 22 nominations
Merete Voldstedlund
- Andreas' mother
- (scenes deleted)
Henning Jensen
- Leif
- (scenes deleted)
Steen Svare
- Sportsman
- (as Steen Svare Hansen)
- …
- Director
- Writers
- Maeve Binchy(uncredited)
- Lone Scherfig
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- TriviaIn May 2010 it was revealed that Zentropa Productions officially acknowledged plot similarities to Maeve Binchy's novel "Evening Class". Writer-director Lone Scherfig 'borrowed' part of her plot from the Irish novel without giving any credit to the original author. Binchy was not credited in the original release of the film as Zentropa had determined they were not in breach of copyright, but after Binchy's representatives approached them they paid a non-disclosed compensation and added a credit for her in later releases.
- GoofsWhen Karen turns the dial of the IV, she reduces the dose instead of increasing it.
- Quotes
Olympia's Father: That sounds disgusting.
- Alternate versionsThere are two different versions of the film with different editing and sequencing. The original version shown at the Berlin film Festival and in several european countries ran 118 minutes; theatrical version shown in the US ran 112 minutes.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Bodilfesten 2001 (2001)
Featured review
A Delightful Romance in Dogma 95
In Denmark, six lonely persons are having Italian classes sponsored by the City Hall. Jørgen Mortensen (Peter Gabtzler) is a shy hotel manager who has a crush on Giulia (Sara Indrio Jensen), a young Italian woman who works in an Italian restaurant and is secretly in love with him. Olympia (Anette Støvelbæk) is a clumsy clerk of a candy shop, who lives with her sullen father and is in love with Andreas (Anders W. Berthelsen), a young widow priest recently arrived in town. And the hairdresser Karen (Ann Eleonora Jørgensen), whose mother is an alcoholic woman, who loves Hal-Finn (Lars Kaalund), an incompetent and aggressive bar manager of the hotel where his best friend Jørgen Mortensen works. I am not a fan of Dogma 95 movies (the movement which uses handheld camera, natural light and sound and no special effects), but in this delightful romance the actors are so spontaneous that indeed it works. This unconventional love story, with euthanasia, common people, losers in general, Danish persons speaking Italian, is actually a great romance. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): ` Italiano Para Principiantes' (`Italian For Beginners')
Title (Brazil): ` Italiano Para Principiantes' (`Italian For Beginners')
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- claudio_carvalho
- May 10, 2004
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- Italian for Beginners
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- Budget
- $1,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $4,544,753
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $66,047
- Jan 21, 2002
- Gross worldwide
- $16,350,876
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