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

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Lars Eidinger notableWork Persian Lessons