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In this original Holocaust film, a Jewish inmate makes up a language to survive
January 29, 2021
Nahuel Perez Biscayart portrays a Jewish inmate at a concentration camp during filming in Belarus of the film Persian Lessons in 2019.
(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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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)
The interactive theater project is a trio of encounters between strangers that take place over several months.
Part 1, which will begin Thursday, is a scheduled phone call in which two audience members will be paired together to create a shared fiction through a series of prompts. Part 2 will take place in a few months, when two audience members will sit at a table, separated by a pane of glass, to create another story using a stack of index cards, a handful of objects and a set of instructions. Part 3 will take place when the pandemic ends. All artists and audience members will gather together and, using a shared script, will create a collective experience inspired by the previous encounters.
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.