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Original title
Persischstunden (Persian Lessons)
Year
2020
Running time
127 min.
Country
Belarus Belarus
Director
Vadim Perelman
Screenwriter
Ilya Tsofin (Novel: Wolfgang Kohlhaase)
Music
Evgueni Galperine, Sacha Galperine
Cinematography
Vladislav Opelyants
Cast
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Leonie Benesch, Jonas Nay, David Schütter, Luisa-Céline Gaffron, Alexander Beyer, Giuseppe Schillaci, Peter Beck, Andreas Hofer, Nico Ehrenteit, Marcus Calvin, Mehdi Rahim-Silvioli, Ingo Hülsmann, Felix von Bredow, Antonin Chalon, Serge Barbagallo, Pascal Elso, Elena Stetsenko, Gennadiy Fomin, Alexander Starchenko, Alexandr Zhdanovich, Anton Zhukov, Svetlana Anikey, Anastasia Gudei, Veronika Buslaeva, Elena Girenok
Producer
Co-production Belarus-Germany-Russia; ONE TWO Films, Hype Film, LM Media, Belarusfilm
Genre
Drama | Prison Drama. Nazism. II World War. Holocaust. 1940s
Synopsis / Plot
1942. Gilles, a young Belgian man, is arrested by the SS alongside other Jews and sent to a concentration camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but then Gilles is assigned a seemingly untenable mission: to teach Farsi to Koch, the officer in charge of the camp’s kitchen, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Gilles finds himself having to invent a language he doesn’t know, word by word. As the unusual relationship between the two men begins to incite jealousy and suspicion, Gilles becomes acutely aware that one false move could expose his swindle. Filmmaker Vadim Perelman directs this gripping drama with a slick, assured hand. Persian Lessons achieves that rare feat of maintaining a fine balance between a respectful account of the horrors of the Shoah, and a sense of irony that may be one of the keys to surviving such madness.
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