Italian for Beginners (2000)
Rating: 6.4/10
Duration: 118 min
Year: 2000
Genres: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Lone Scherfig
Description:
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.
Cast
- Peter Gantzler as Jørgen Mortensen
- Ann Eleonora Jørgensen as Karen
- Anders W. Berthelsen as Andreas
- Anette Støvelbæk as Olympia
- Lars Kaalund as Hal-Finn
- Sara Indrio Jensen as Giulia
- Karen-Lise Mynster as Real Estate Dealer
- Rikke Wölck as Nurse
- Bent Mejding as Reverend Wredmann
- Elsebeth Steentoft as Woman in Church
- Lene Tiemroth as Karen's Mother
- Claus Gerving as Klaus Graversen
- Jesper Christensen as Olympia's Father
- Carlo Barsotti as Marcello
- Alex Nyborg Madsen as Church Singer #1 / Sportsman #1
