This Charming Man (film)

• Martin Book: Lars Hansen
• Camilla Bendix: Ida
• Farshad Kholghi Omid
• Martin Hestbæk: Niels
• Michel Cast Holt: Pelle the print shop owner

This Charming Man ( original title: Der er en yndig someone ) is a Danish short film. It's a comedy of errors, in which the protagonist Lars to help his love Ida, assumes the identity of a Pakistani immigrant. The original title refers to the Danish National Anthem The He et yndigt country. 2003, the film won an Oscar for Best Short Film.

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Lars Hansen, born in 1971 and is standing alone, looking for a job. After several refusals he goes to job placement. There he meets an old school friend, Ida. She gives him her phone number. Due to a mix up in the job placement is sent instead of the Pakistani El Hassan Lars to a Danish course. He tries to clarify the confusion, but what he did in spite of a long telephone conversation with various people do not succeed. Enraged, he insulted ultimately the receptionist as Jutland yokel who is to shave to where he came from. Ida, as the Danish teacher on probation works just there, listening to his cries and calls him a racist.

Lars tries with a bouquet of tulips settle the dispute with Ida. He succeeds well, but she does not want to go out with him because she has just ended a long relationship. There are also problems in their workplace. Your course will be canceled because not come for El Hassan's absence enough students together. Lars then decides to come incognito to the course as El Hassan. He dyed his hair black, sticking to more bad than good in a mustache and exercises to speak broken in Danish.

In the course, he learns a little more about the life of immigrants and makes acquaintance with Omid, an Iranian engineer who already got 50 job rejections. When he gets a job rejection phone as Lars during a course tour, he justified it as Ida opposite El Hassan with the same words as Omid: He had the wrong name. Ida now wants to work at the company for El Hassan. Ida argues with Pelle, the print shop owner, when Lars appears there the next day. Ida throws Pelle before a racist to be and Lars that he would take away someone in need the job.

As an employee due to the dispute decides to no longer want to work in the print shop, El Hassan Omid gives the job. Ida like El Hassan's application for Omid and feels otherwise attracted to El Hassan. After class they attend together a pub, is a regular guest Lars and Niels, Ida's ex, works as a bartender. Because once again, his mustache has fallen, Lars rescues the situation by kissing Ida Niels eyes, then he disappears into the bathroom to fix his mustache. Meanwhile, Ida answered a call to Lars and is elucidated by Lars ' clerk of the placement of the confusion. When he comes back from the bathroom, she runs away. Niels other hand, accuses El Hassan to take away the woman. In a scramble, he suggests Niels down. He examined immediately Ida on at home to apologize to her for the deception. He is desperate and obtrusive what worried neighbors to take this opportunity to captivate the immigrants. When Lars border, he would have done anything just for the love of Ida, this asks her neighbors to release him.

Ultimately proposes a umfallender flagpole Lars unconscious. Ida visited him in the hospital and everything has a happy ending.