This Charming Man

6.0(12)200230m1

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.

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Danish

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  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical2 Oct 2002

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This Charming Man was released on 2 October 2002.

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    CinemaSerf

    1/17/2026

    6/10

    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…

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