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'Persian Lessons': Film Review | Berlin 2020

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A Jewish prisoner pretends to be Iranian to escape being shot and is then forced to teach Farsi, a language he doesn’t speak, to a Nazi superior inPersian Lessons, the new film from Ukrainian-born, Canada-based director Vadim Perelman (The House of Sand and Fog). “Inspired by true events,” as per an onscreen note, and based on a short story by Wolfgang Kohlhaase, this meticulously polished Holocaust tale offers something of a new angle on largely familiar material: The film explores memory, linguistics and transmission against the backdrop of a transit camp, where the detainee will likely be killed should his invented “Farsi” ever be discovered as such — meaning he has to remember every single piece of the nonsensical language he’s making.

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