Italian for Beginners
2000 Danish romantic comedy film / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Italian for Beginners (Danish: Italiensk for begyndere) is a 2000 Danish romantic comedy film written and directed by Lone Scherfig, and starring Anders W. Berthelsen, Lars Kaalund and Peter Gantzler, together with Ann Eleonora Jørgensen, Anette Støvelbæk and Sara Indrio Jensen. The film was made by the austere principles of the Dogme 95 movement, including the use of handheld video cameras and natural lighting, and is known as Dogme XII.[3][4] However, in contrast to most Dogme films which are harsh and serious in tone, Italian for Beginners is a light-hearted comedy.[5] It was made on a $600,000 budget[1], and went on to gross over 27 times that.[2]
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Directed by | Lone Scherfig |
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Cinematography | Jørgen Johansson |
Edited by | Gerd Tjur |
Music by | Niels W. Gade (non-original) |
Distributed by | Zentropa |
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Running time | 118 minutes |
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Budget | $600,000[1] |
Box office | $16.4 million[2] |
After the film's release, significant similarities between its plot and that of the novel Evening Class by Maeve Binchy were identified. The distributor, Zentropa, paid an undisclosed sum in compensation to Binchy.[6]