Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “I think this story should be told all the time, especially now,” director Vadim Perelman says of his historical drama Persian ...
Director Vadim Perelman and frequent Berlinale film star Lars Eidinger on Saturday championed their new Holocaust-set “Persian Lessons” as a timely, very German tale of how that dark history is closer ...
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 ...
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 ...
“Persian Lessons,” nearly a foreign Oscar nominee from Belarus, sets itself apart by putting a human face not only on the victims, but on the perpetrators. (JTA) — For a movie about the Holocaust, the ...
In the framing of the folk tale anthology “One Thousand and One Nights,” Scheherazade prolongs her life day by day with the stories she tells her murderous husband. Something similar, and similarly ...
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 ...
The Holocaust drama 'Persian Lessons,' from Vadim Perelman ('House of Sand and Fog'), stars Nahuel Perez Biscayart ('BPM') and Lars Eidinger ('Personal Shopper'). By Boyd van Hoeij A Jewish prisoner ...