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With ticket sales slumping after Chinese New Year, Beijing s regulators have begun granting last-minute permission for imported movies to open in March. Persian Lessons will test China s market for emotionally potent foriegn indie filmmaking, which had been on the rise prior to the pandemic.
Vadim Perelman s modestly budgeted holocaust drama
Persian Lessons has been set for release in China on March 19 in the shadow of James Cameron s surprise
The well-regarded Belarusian-Russian film will pose a test of China s market for emotionally potent foreign indie filmmaking, which had been growing steadily before the disastrous onset of the pandemic.
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Nahuel Perez Biscayart portrays a Jewish inmate at a concentration camp during filming in Belarus of the film Persian Lessons in 2019. (Courtesy of HyperFilms/ via JTA)
Lars Eidinger plays a Nazi officer at a concentration camp during the filming in Belarus of Persian Lessons in 2019. (Courtesy of HyperFilms/ via JTA)
Nahuel Perez Biscayart portrays a Jewish inmate leaving a concentration camp during filming in Belarus of the film Persian Lessons in 2019. (Courtesy of HyperFilms/ via JTA)
Vadim Perelman listens to a journalist s question about his film Persian Lessons in Berlin, February 22, 2020. (Michael Kappeler/picture alliance via Getty Images/ via JTA/ SUE)
In this original Holocaust film, a Jewish inmate makes up a language to survive January 15, 2021 2:23 pm Nahuel Perez Biscayart portrays a Jewish inmate at a concentration camp in the Belarusian film Persian Lessons. (Courtesy of HyperFilms)
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(JTA) For a movie about the Holocaust, the Belarussian film “Persian Lessons” has some comic potential. Set in a concentration camp somewhere in Western Europe, it involves a Jewish inmate who survives by giving Farsi lessons to a Nazi officer who dreams about opening a restaurant in Tehran.
One problem: The inmate doesn’t speak Farsi. Instead he comes up with his own language and teaches it to his captor, trying not to raise suspicions.
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