- Country: Czech Republic, Italy, UK
- Genres: Drama, Mystery
- Release: 2005-11-25
- Director: John Irvin
- Writers: Frank Wedekind , Alberto Lattuada , Ottavio Jemma , James Carrington , Sadie Jones
- Language: English
- Stars: Jacqueline Bisset , Hannah Taylor Gordon , Natalia Tena , Anna Maguire
- Runtime: 102 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: I ypsili tehni tou erota (Greece) , Hidalla Mine-Ha Ha (United Kingdom) , El despertar del amor (Argentina) , El despertar del amor (Spain) , The Grooming (United Kingdom) , The Fine Art of Love: Mine Ha-Ha (United States of America) , Laughing Water (Mine-Ha Ha) (United Kingdom) , The Fine Art of Love: Mine Ha-Ha , The Fine Art of Love: Mine Ha-Ha (Czech Republic) , ミネハハ 秘密の森の少女たち (Japan) , L'educazione fisica delle fanciulle (Italy)
- Plot:
A group of young girls are brought up in a college within dark forests and gloomy lakes. Young Hidalla and her friends Irene, Vera, Blanka, Melusine and Rain are brought up in an isolated world: the girls don’t know anything about live outside the college’s high walls. At the age of 16, some of them start asking questions about their origins, their parents and the true purposes of the Headmistresses strict rules. When two of them disappear mysteriously, the initial fairytale atmosphere grows more and more eerie…
- IMDB:tt0425186
The Fine Art of Love: Mine Ha-Ha Cast · · · ALL
John Irvin
Director
Jacqueline Bisset
Headmistress
Hannah Taylor Gordon
Irene
Natalia Tena
Vera
Anna Maguire
Melusine
Mary Nighy
Hidalla
Anya Lahiri
Rain
Urbano Barberini
il principe
Silvia De Santis
Gertrude
Eva Grimaldi
Simba
Enrico Lo Verso
Inspector
Galatea Ranzi
Lady Helena
Tomás Hanák
autista carro funebre
Jan Unger
giardiniere
Marek Vasut
conte
Lucie Vondrácková
Pamela