A Jewish Frenchman posing as a Persian eludes death by teaching a fictional form of the Persian language to a Nazi commandant in this improbable Holocaust drama. By Beatrice Loayza When you purchase a ...
Although the title might suggest a quaint, cross-cultural excursion along the lines of “Italian for Beginners” or “Learning to Drive,” Vadim Perelman’s “Persian Lessons” turns out to be reaching for ...
Vadim Perelman's WWII drama is a fable about whether it's ever truly possible to make a deal with the devil and walk away unscathed. When Gilles (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) is arrested by Nazis and put ...
Set in Nazi-occupied France in 1942, the story begins when a young French Jew named Reza, the son of a Belgian rabbi, is captured by the Germans and forced into a truck on its way to a concentration ...
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