Italian For Beginners

– A group of strangers find friendship, family and love within an Italian beginners’ course...

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.10 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 52 Minutes
Release Year:
2000
Original Name:
Italiensk for begyndere
Italian for Beginners (2000) - Also known as Italiensk for begyndere

A group of strangers find friendship, family and love within an Italian beginners’ course.

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Release Date:

10 May 2002

Language:

Danish, Italian, English

MPAA Content-Rating:
R – Restricted

Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.

Director:

Lone Scherfig

Writer:

Maeve Binchy (based on her novel "Evening Class"), Lone Scherfig (screenplay)

Main Actors:

Anders W. Berthelsen, Anette Støvelbæk, Ann Eleonora Jørgensen, Peter Gantzler

Plot:

A young minister, a widower, is temporarily assigned to a church whose suspended pastor drove parishioners away; he stays at a hotel where he meets Jørgen, who's alone approaching middle age. Jørgen's friend Finn, a temperamental restaurant manager, may be about to be fired. Finn's assistant is Giulia, a lovely young Italian who prays for a husband. Olympia, a clumsy bakery clerk, has an ornery father; Karen, a hairdresser, has a mother who is very ill. The paths of these six characters cross at church, in the restaurant, at the hotel, and at an Italian class at the local adult school. Loneliness, grief, solace, romance, and love may meet 'nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita.'

Awards:

20 wins & 22 nominations.

Gross profit:

$4,409,992

Production:

Miramax Films

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
Metacritic:
77%