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This Charming Man

6,0 /10 (12 Votes)
2002 DA 30 min

Overview

Lars applies for job training, but his papers are mixed with an immigrant and he's sent instead to Danish class. When he learns that the attractive teacher, Ida, will lose her job if the immigrant isn't in attendance, he decides to go through with the erroneous assignment posing as the other guy. The short film is a comedy of errors, but works in some poignant and scathing observations about xenophobia.

Release date

02/10/2002

Votes

12

Popularity

0.1

Genres

Status

Released

Original title

Der er en yndig mand

Language

DA

Runtime

30 min

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2026-01-17

⭐ 6

When there’s a mix up at the job centre, “Lars” (Martin Buch) finds himself accidentally given the ID of a Pakistani immigrant to Denmark, and assigned compulsory Danish lessons. Oddly enough, he is already quite fluent in his native language but no amount of calling is going to get him excused from his course. Then he discovers that his school friend “Ida” (Camilla Bendix) - whom he barely remembers - is the teacher and if he doesn’t show up, then her work will get canned and she fired. Keen to be helpful, he dons a black wig and moustache and turns up pretending to be “El-Hassan”. Now with a…

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