New Holocaust film: Jewish inmate makes up a language to survive

For a movie about the Holocaust, the Belarussian film Persian Lessons has some comic potential.

LARS EIDINGER plays a Nazi officer at a concentration camp in ‘Persian Lessons’ in 2019. (Courtesy HyperFilms)

LARS EIDINGER plays a Nazi officer at a concentration camp in ‘Persian Lessons’ in 2019. (Courtesy HyperFilms)

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ByCNAAN LIPHSHIZ

JANUARY 17, 2021 22:14