(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 11 - The drama of the Shoah seen with respectful irony is the proposal of LEZIONI DI PERSIANO, a film by Vadim Perelman, a Ukrainian naturalized Canadian director, formerly at the Berlinale Special and now available exclusively on the #Iorestoinsala platform from 14 to 17 January.
We are in 1942 and Gilles (Nahuel Perez Biscayart), a young Belgian is arrested by the SS along with other Jews and sent to a concentration camp in Germany.
The man succeeds with great cunning in avoiding execution by swearing to the guards not to be Jewish, but Persian.
A lie that temporarily saved him until Gilles was at one point assigned an impossible mission: to teach Farsi to Koch (Lars Eidinger), the official in charge of the kitchen of the camp, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran at the end of the war.
Gilles, who certainly does not lack imagination and resourcefulness, thus finds himself, from one moment to the next, having to invent a language that he does not know, word by word, sentence by sentence and then grammar.
While the unusual relationship between the two men begins to arouse some jealousy and suspicion, Gilles becomes increasingly aware that a false move could reveal his scam with inevitable tragic consequences.
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