"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 first premiered back in 2020 just before the pandemic at the Berlin Film Festival, before getting lost in all the shutdowns. It played at various fests over the next few years, and opened in Germany in late 2020 already. The US release has finally been set - over three years later - for this June in select theaters. Gilles (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) is arrested by Nazis alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to the Head of Camp Koch. Through an ingenious trick, he manages to survive...
- 5/23/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
"You would die with that nameless horde?" "They're only nameless, because you don't know their names." Memento Films has released an official trailer for Persian Lessons (feat. English subtitles), a German-Russian WWII thriller from filmmaker Vadim Perelman (House of Sand and Fog). This premiered at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year. Gilles (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch. Through an ingenious trick, he manages to survive by inventing words of "Farsi" every day and teaching them to Koch. A harrowing story of survival during the Holocaust. The cast features Lars Eidinger as Koch, Jonas Nay, David Schütter, Alexander Beyer, Andreas Hofer,...
- 10/13/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Cologne, Germany -- Cinematographer Judith Kaufmann has won the 20th German Camera Prize for her framing of "When We Leave," Feo Aladag's debut feature on honor killings.
The drama stars Sibel Kekilli ("Head-On") as a young Muslim woman ostracized by her family for daring to leave an abusive husband. The top editing honor went to Moritz Reinecke, who won for his cut of Oliver Kienle's coming-of-age-Drama "Bis aufs Blut."
Patrick Eppler's work on Gerardo Milsztein's "To Fight For: The Year of Decision" won top honors for best cinematography in a documentary. The doc follows German juvenile delinquents trying to box their way out of a life a crime. Henk Dress won best editing for a documentary for his work on Insa Onken's "Rich Brother," about the fate of a young man from Cameroon living in Germany.
The small screen nods went to Andreas Hofer, who shot...
The drama stars Sibel Kekilli ("Head-On") as a young Muslim woman ostracized by her family for daring to leave an abusive husband. The top editing honor went to Moritz Reinecke, who won for his cut of Oliver Kienle's coming-of-age-Drama "Bis aufs Blut."
Patrick Eppler's work on Gerardo Milsztein's "To Fight For: The Year of Decision" won top honors for best cinematography in a documentary. The doc follows German juvenile delinquents trying to box their way out of a life a crime. Henk Dress won best editing for a documentary for his work on Insa Onken's "Rich Brother," about the fate of a young man from Cameroon living in Germany.
The small screen nods went to Andreas Hofer, who shot...
- 6/28/2010
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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