The movie "Persian Language Class" tells the story of the Jew Giles, in order to avoid the pursuit of the German army, falsely claiming that he is a Persian. Escaped. Persian is one of the oldest languages in the world and is still the official language of countries such as Iran. Persian is elegant and mysterious, and in the film he is given a meaning beyond communication - the list of victims. Gilles, who did not speak Persian, used the list of prisoners held in the concentration camps to make up Persian words to teach the German officer Claus, in order to conceal his false identity. Klaus gradually developed trust and dependence on the Persian teacher. When the enemy arrived, Klaus fled to Tehran, but still did not forget Giles and rescued Giles from the concentration camp. At the Tehran airport, Klaus communicated with the locals in the Persian language that Giles gave him, and he finally learned the truth. It turned out that Giles had been deceiving him with fake Persian. Because Giles created his own Persian language, he wrote down all the names of the victims by accident.
Jew Giles, smart and alert, survived under the persecution of the Germans, and has a strong desire to survive, which fits the Jewish personality very well. In contrast, the image of the German officer Claus is more plump. He was a German officer who was brutal to the Jews and indifferent to his own murders. But he also came from a poor background and joined the army just for decency and survival. He's not a staunch Nazi, he's focused on learning Persian, only to open his own restaurant in Tehran in the future. As an army officer, he was cruel to the Jews, but learning Persian he confided his vulnerability to Giles. He is more like an ordinary person who is forced to be involved in the war. Under the torrent of history, everyone is a cog in this cruel war machine. He had no intention of being cruel by nature, but because of his identity and position, he directly or indirectly caused the deaths of countless Jews. From another perspective, Klaus was not persecuted by the war. Of course, such a person should not be forgiven. He was eventually arrested in Tehran, but the people who created the war tried to return to peace after the war. Klaus will never be able to have his own restaurant in Tehran.
The most ironic plot of the whole film is that Klaus made a poem in fake Persian and read it to Giles:
"The wind pushes the clouds eastward
Soothe the soul that longs for peace
I know it will make me happy
That's where the clouds are going."
The poems are beautiful and demure, full of Claus's yearning for a peaceful life, but every word in the poem is a victim, a Jew who died at his hands.
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