Persian Lessons

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Persian Lessons is a 2020 World War II drama film about a Jewish man who survives a concentration camp by pretending to be Persian and inventing a fake language for an SS officer.

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Persian Lessons canonical 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf World War II film
film
war drama film
basedOn Erfindung einer Sprache
short story by Wolfgang Kohlhaase
centralTheme identity
language
survival
cinematographyBy Vladislav Opelyants
countryOfOrigin Belarus
Germany
Russia
director Vadim Perelman
distributor Hype Film
editedBy Vera Savchenko
featuresCharacter SS officer
genre drama film
war film
hasFakeLanguage invented Persian-like language
mainCharacter Gilles
musicBy Evgueni Galperine
Sacha Galperine
narrativeDevice invented language
originalLanguage German
Russian
oscarSubmissionFor Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards
oscarSubmissionStatus not nominated
oscarSubmittedBy Belarus
plotSummary A Jewish man survives a concentration camp by pretending to be Persian and inventing a fake language for an SS officer.
portrays Holocaust
Nazi Germany
premiereEvent 70th Berlin International Film Festival
premiereSection Berlinale Special Gala
linked to: Berlinale Special
producer Alexander Rodnyansky
productionCompany Non-Stop Production
protagonistDescribedAs Jewish man
releaseYear 2020
runtimeMinutes 127
screenwriter Ilja Zofin
Vadim Perelman
settingLocation Nazi concentration camp
settingPeriod World War II
starring Alexander Beyer
David Schütter
Jonas Nay
Lars Eidinger
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
timePeriodOfProduction late 2010s
workType feature film

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Lars Eidinger notableWork Persian Lessons
Vadim Perelman notableWork Persian Lessons
Vadim Perelman directed Persian Lessons
Vadim Perelman screenwrote Persian Lessons