Vadim Perelman's "Persian Lessons" Blu-ray - Nahuel Pérez Biscayart @CohenMediaGroup @KinoLorber
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Vadim Perelman's "Persian Lessons" Blu-ray - Nahuel Pérez Biscayart @CohenMediaGroup @KinoLorber
OUR REVIEW:
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film11/blu-ray_review_174/persian_lessons_blu-ray.htm
Occupied France, 1942. Gilles (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch (Lars Eidinger), who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by inventing words of “Farsi” every day and teaching them to Koch. The particular relationship between the two men sparks the jealousy of other prisoners and SS guards towards Gilles. And while the suspicions of Koch grow every day, Gilles understands that he will not be able to keep his secret very long...
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Vadim Perelman's Persian Lessons was partially inspired by the German writer Wolfgang Kohlhaase in his short story Erfindung einer Sprache. The 'faux' Farsi language used in Persian Lessons was fabricated by a Moscow State University Professor who based the vocabulary on the real documented names of Holocaust victims. I loved Perelman's House of Sand and Fog, and I quite liked Persian Lessons... and maybe his The Life Before Her Eyes less so. He is a director known for being selective in his project choices. The Cohen Media Group Blu-ray has the engaging film, if bare-bones is absolutely recommended.
