It is a film about the incomparable power of imposture.
Vadim Perelman's Persian Lessons
tells the story of an ingenious young man who will live up to his promise, however completely misleading.
In 1942, to escape a firing squad, a young Belgian Jew (Nahuel Perez Biscayart, admirable in his fragility and intelligence) claims not to be a Jew… but a Persian.
In the van taking him to a transit camp in eastern France, he traded a book in Farsi for a piece of bread to a starving fellow prisoner.
Luck is on his side.
At the camp, a Nazi officer, Captain Koch (played by actor Lars Eidinger, imperial of perversity) is precisely looking for a Persian to learn his language in order to open a restaurant in Tehran after the war, when he will have joined his brother.
Duel of comedians
From this postulate, however incredible, the mechanics of the lie are immediately put in place.
She is relentless.
The narrative arc is stretched to everything…
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