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Persian Lessons (2020)

★ 7.4127 minDirector: Vadim Perelman

2020 Russian-Belarusian war drama film

Persian Lessons (German: Persischstunden) is a 2020 historical drama film directed by Vadim Perelman. The film was partially inspired by the short story Erfindung einer Sprache by German writer Wolfgang Kohlhaase.

It was selected as the Belarusian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards. However, the film was disqualified by the Academy, due to the majority of those involved not coming from Belarus.

Plot summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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What is Persian Lessons about?
Persian Lessons (2020) — 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 seem
Is Persian Lessons based on a true story?
See the production background and source material details on the official Wikipedia article.
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