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 ...

In “Schindler’s List,” most of the actors spoke English, using accents to indicate their characters’ origins. In “Son of Saul,” the cast struggles to communicate in a mish-mosh of languages, as Jews ...

Siraj Wahhaj and the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing . . . Again Audio By Carbonatix As I am always in the market for film recommendations, I assume that this may be the case for many of my readers as ...

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 ...

In spite of its compelling premise and performances, Persian Lessons feels clumsy. Vadim Perelman’s Holocaust drama tells the story of Gilles (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart), a Belgian Jewish man who ...

When Gilles (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) is arrested by Nazis and put on a train to a concentration camp, he has every reason to believe that his life is over. It’s 1942 in Nazi-occupied France, and all ...

"You just make sure the murderers eat well." Cohen Media Group has revealed another official US trailer for the German WWII drama Persian Lessons, made by Ukrainian filmmaker Vadim Perelman. This ...

Join us on July 20 for the screening of Persian Lessons- at the Lavazza IncluCity Festival. The film is set in 1942. Along with other Jews, Gilles, a young Belgian man, is detained by the SS and sent ...