Persian Lessons

Persian Lessons

  • Director: Vadim Perelman
  • Writer: Ilja Zofin,Wolfgang Kohlhaase
  • Countries of origin: Russia, Germany, Belarus
  • Language: German, French, Italian, English, Persian
  • Release date: September 24, 2020
  • Also known as: Уроки фарсі
  • "Persian Lessons" is a war drama directed by Vadim Perlman , starring Lars Eidinger and Nahuel Pérez Biscayart . It will be released at the Berlin Film Festival in Germany on February 22, 2020 and in mainland China on March 19, 2021 reflect  .
    The film is based on a short story  . It tells the story of Gilles, a young Belgian Jew who pretends to be a Persian to teach Persian as a concentration camp officer Koch in order to survive. story 

    Details

    • Release date September 24, 2020
    • Production companies Hype Film, LM Media, ONE TWO Films

    Box office

    Gross worldwide

    $4,289,973

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    • By Daphne 2022-12-30 03:24:02

      A description of the values ​​of human nature

      It's the most characteristic WWII film I've ever seen, despite its undeniable flaws.

      In the film, I noticed two big moves about the description of human values, which is why I want to write this review.

      One, there was a real Persian in the camp. The screenwriter did a good job here. The Nazi soldier said that the man was from England and could not speak a word of German. He said he was of Persian descent. In fact, he did not...

    • By Alexandra 2022-12-25 20:48:53

      To save you, use our names.

      After "Schindler's List", "The Pianist" and "Life is Beautiful", the fourth film I watched about Jewish concentration camps. Although the ending is somewhat condescending to the Germans, the angle is novel, and the magical reality woven by language and names is deeply moving. Human nature is also portrayed in a more comprehensive way, from the persecuted to the perpetrators, there are things that make people feel pity and embarrassment. Reza is not the role of Wei...

    • By Joelle 2022-12-23 10:19:37

      Koch doesn't deserve sympathy

      Koch is undoubtedly a complex character, his motivations and character activities are complex compared to the protagonist's survival and Max's mission. There's been a lot of detailed analysis that he's likely gay, so his feelings for the protagonist are worth discussing. But I don't think that's love. It was pure exploitation at first, then it was a habit, and at the end it was like reluctance to let your dog die. When the protagonist answered the word "bread" with his...

    • By Lesley 2022-12-23 06:50:41

      more complex than the language system

      It's a work that I think is good.

      Two of my favorite scenes are at the end:

      One is that the officer found out that his Persian language was fake at the Persian customs. He said "I went to Tehran to find my brother" "I want to open a restaurant". Heartache, innocent, frustrated, with a cry, but still cruel, hateful, tyrannical, and bears human life. In two years, they have learned a language that only the two of them know in the world....

    • By Dessie 2022-12-19 14:48:33

      I watched the sunset gradually darken, it was the afterglow of the war

      The same table went crazy before and asked me to watch it, but I always said yes and put it in my favorites folder to eat silently. Today, I was playing it crookedly. The boys watched this movie, and it was considered to be finished. At first, I thought it was still "Changjin Lake", and I didn't have much interest, but the more I watched it, the more wrong it became, so I went back to the dormitory and finished the first half an hour (suddenly remembered that the teacher who...

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    • By Henderson 2023-09-11 09:40:26

      The film's irony peaks when a Nazi officer writes a poem in Jewish names and says, "This language is too beautiful." The next peak is the ending. The Nazi officers tried to use Jewish names to talk to the Persians to avoid the military court, but the real Persians could not understand a word. The actor, the Nazi officer, performed well. He was eating fish in the cafeteria. He heard his colleagues say that the Persian teacher was in the death row of the Jews. He pretended to be calm but couldn't...

    • By Marcia 2023-09-02 22:09:59

      Contingency is greater than inevitability. It adopts a narrative method of clearing roadblocks like a unit drama, and the difficulty factor is constantly escalating. However, like the soundtrack that Ruyi intends to render, it cannot make the core more full. In the same way, the movie cannot prove that all the deeds that survive after being determined by history are not unique, and that they should form the world together with all the buried and forgotten. Therefore, even if the names of those...

    • By Dillon 2023-08-26 07:49:52

      Weaving in code is a tombstone and a...

    • By Lurline 2023-08-16 03:47:06

      3.5; very suspenseful advancement and development, once thought of "The Fake Captain", but the weaving of the script still needs to be improved, there are doubts in the textual research of the details implementation, the branch lines are slightly scattered, so there is also a lack of deep reflection. Respect at the end. A virtual "language" kingdom constructed in Jewish names is like a small utopia created by the whole film. These names, which were recorded, deleted, and finally burned, lie in...

    • By Stanford 2023-08-08 11:24:49

      There are only two languages ​​in the world that people know. For officers, it is the love and romance of poetry, and for prisoners, it is the blood and dirge of a whole nation. Using a fictional language to pay homage to the dead Absolutely no...

    Creative motivation

    Director Vadim Perlman was drawn to the project because of his own Jewish heritage. He felt the subject of the Holocaust "needs to be touched in some way and then let go". Most films portray Nazis as robots, but he wanted to go beyond that and create a humanized image of the Nazi, someone who felt jealous, feared, and loved just like everyone else, and who showed that the Holocaust was not a particular politics or the product of a...
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    The Jewish prisoner pretended to be Persian to escape, but the Nazi officer asked him to teach himself Persian. Such a "high concept" setting brings a strong dramatic tension to the film. In desperation, Jewish prisoners created a language, each word borrowed the name of the prisoner compatriots, and the heaviness of history was born from this. A very unequal and antagonistic relationship, with the unfolding of "Persian Lessons", has...
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    Movie quotes

    • Gilles: [about his daily fourty words in 'Farsi'] Inventing them is not a problem but to remember them all, it's impossible. And there will always be more. Many more.

    • Klaus Koch: [Koch took Gilles back after he was put to move to another camp] You would risk your life for those nameless people.

      Gilles: Those aren't nameless. Just because you don't know their names. At least they aren't murderers.

      Klaus Koch: I'm not a murderer.

      Gilles: No. You just make sure that the murderers eat well.

    • Klaus Koch: As long as you work for me nothing will happen to you. I bet 20 cans of meat that nothing will happen to you.

      Gilles: Too bad I won't be able to eat them since I'll be dead.