- HD 1080
- Runtime: 118m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: da
- Country: Denmark, Sweden
- Director: Lone Scherfig
- Stars: Peter Gantzler, Ann Eleonora Jørgensen, Anders W. Berthelsen, Anette Støvelbæk, Lars Kaalund
- keywords: hotel, daughter, depression, friendship, waitress, venice, italy, hairdresser, italian, copenhagen, denmark, adult education center, language course, parent child relationship, priest, church, woman director, dogme 95
- Production_studio: Zentropa Entertainments
- Slogan: Attendance optional. Passion required.
- The Italian for Beginners is featured in the top rankings of 2000
- #67 in Top Comedy Movies of 2000
- #46 in Top Romance Movies of 2000
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.
