“I think this story should be told all the time, especially now,” director Vadim Perelman says of his historical drama Persian Lessons.
The film, set during the Holocaust, chronicles how a young Belgian man avoids execution in a concentration camp by pretending he can speak Persian, teaching a made-up language to a camp prison officer.“There is a definite resurgence of hatred in this world and it’s never too late or too early to tell that story in order to educate,” Perelman says during Deadline’s Contenders International awards-season event.The film had been this year’s Oscar entry for Belarus before it was disqualified earlier this week for not having enough creative positions originating from the country, thereby making it ineligible (it
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