ITALIAN FOR BEGINNERS
Director: Lone Scherfig
Script: Lone Scherfig
Photography: Jorgen Johansson
Editing: Gerd Tjur
Cast: Anders W. Berthelsen, Ann Eleonora Jorgensen, Anette Stoovelbaek, Peter Gantzler, Lars Kaalund, Sara Indrio Jemsen, Eisebeth Steentof, Carlo Barsotti
Production: Zentropa Entertainments
Distribution: Istituto Luce
Year: 2001
Running Time: 118′
Country: Denmark
Silver Bear Berlinale 2001
The lives of six lonely hearts, living in the suburbs of a Danish city, change when a young Protestant minister comes to their Italian night c1asses. From that moment on, the priest becomes the pivot around which revolves this group of people whose lives have been very hard. With the passing of time ali of them manage to overcome their own difficult situations and find a little serenity.