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Lone Scherfig directs this Danish comedy drama starring Anders W. Berthelsen and Anette Stovelbæk. Andreas (Berthelsen) is a young clergyman newly arrived in the city of Copenhagen, who finds himself consistently undermined by Reverend Wredman (Brent Mejding), a man consumed with bitterness at his daughter's suicide. Olympia (Stovelbæk) works at a bakery and cares thanklessly for her ailing and irritable father. Shy concierge Jørgen (Peter Gantzler) is in love with an Italian waitress named Giulia (Sara Indrio Jensen) but doesn't know how to approach her. The abrasive bar manager Hal-Finn (Lars Kaalund), Giulia's boss, is sacked for being difficult with customers and is in the beginning stages of a relationship with a woman dominated by her alcoholic mother. Jørgen becomes determined to learn Italian to be able to speak to Guilia in her native tongue, and drags the lonely Anders along. Finally, Karen (Ann Jorgensen), a hairdresser who is battling with a terminally alcoholic mother also attends, being rather taken with the hotheaded Hal-Finn who is now one of her customers. When the class teacher Marcello (Matteo Valese) suddenly dies of a heart attack, the class is faced with termination. But Hal-Finn, who claims to have learned Italian when Juventus FC visited Copenhagen a few years back, volunteers to take over the class and events in Karen and Olympia's lives soon draw the class ever-closer in strange and unforeseen ways.

Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Italian For Beginners is a romantic comedy from Denmark (filmed in the Dogme style) in which a group of thirty-something misfits find their lives intertwined through their Italian classes A recently widowed minister takes up a temporary post in a suburban church where the congregation is three and his predecessor heckles during his sermons Meanwhile an already harrassed hotel clerk is given the job of firing his hot-headed best friend a hairdresser who can&39;t cut hair without being interrupted by her alcoholic mother and the girl in the bakery who keeps dropping the cakes Beautiful performances and an improvised script create this fresh moving and uplifting portrait of people finding love friendship and community far away from traditional family ties Actors Anders W Berthelsen Anette Stovelbaek & Ann Eleonora JorgensenDirector Lone ScherfigCertificate 15 years and overYear 2001Screen Fullscreen 43Languages Danish - Dolby Digital (20) StereoSubtitles EnglishDuration 1 hour and 47 minutes (approx)