Italian for Beginners

Italian for Beginners Danish Italiensk for begyndere is a 2000 Danish romantic comedy film written and directed by Lone Scherfig. The film stars Anders W. Berthelsen, Lars Kaalund and Peter Gantzler, together with Ann Eleonora Jrgensen, Anette Stvelbk and Sara Indrio Jensen. The film was made by the austere principles of the Dogme 95 movement, including the use of hand held video cameras and natural lighting, and is known as Dogme XII. However, in contrast to most Dogme films which are harsh and serious in tone, Italian for Beginners is a lighthearted comedy. Made on a low budget of 600,000, the film ranks as the most profitable Scandinavian film in history.

Three women and three men, all singles, with stressful or unhappy lives, register for an Italian course in a Danish suburb. The class serves as a way of bringing these various residents of the town, each of whom is dealing with loss or pain, out of their loneliness and into interactions with other people. When the teacher suffers a heart attack during class and ends up dying, the six classmates hold the class anyway and eventually take a vacation to Italy.The film won the Jury Grand Prix Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, the Golden Spike Award for the best film of the year at the Seminci film festival in Valladolid, Spain, and the Audience Award at the Warsaw International Film Festival in Poland. Peter Gantzler won the award for Best Actor at the Seminci festival. The film also won the Gold Dolphin Best Film at the Festroia International Film Festival in 2001. It currently holds an 88 certified Fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes. ........

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