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Persian Lessons

Russia/Germany/Belarus 2020, 127 min, Dir: Vadim Perelman
German and French with subtitles

 

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Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over.

 

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June 23, 2023
9:30 pm
June 25, 2023
9:30 pm
June 27, 2023
6:45 pm