“I think this story should be told all the time, especially now,” director Vadim Perelman says of his historical drama Persian Lessons. The film, set during the Holocaust, chronicles how a young ...

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 ...

Belgian Jew Gilles is arrested and sent to a concentration camp. Narrowly escaping execution by pretending to be Persian, he then faces the challenge of teaching Hauptsturmführer Koch Persian - a ...