Evening Class (novel) an undisclosed sum, when her publisher contacted the producers of the movie, Lars von Trier's company Zentropa. Although the film's writer-director Lone Scherfig had told the press that the film was based on her idea, executive producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen later admitted that she had made him aware of the similarities but that he had simply decided not to pay the original author. Evening Class (novel) Evening Class is a novel by Maeve Binchy. It was adapted as the award-winning film "Italian for Beginners" (2000) by writer-director Lone Scherfig, who failed to formally acknowledge the source, although at the very
The World in the Evening Elizabeth’s novel "The World in the Evening". Mariano Galdos is Elizabeth’s lover and a character in the novel named Gurian. Mary Scriven is another of Elizabeth's correspondents. A German doctor performs emergency surgery on Elizabeth in Greece. Lee, Dale, Ben, Jo, Joyce, Glen, and Pierre are friends of Jane's. Henri was Michael’s best friend, killed in the war . Shirley is a friend of Jane’s who introduces herself to Monk. Martin Gates is a friend of Jane's whom Monk suspects of being the real father of their child. The World in the Evening The World in the Evening by Christopher