In this original Holocaust film, a Jewish inmate makes up a language to survive
January 29, 2021 Nahuel Perez Biscayart portrays a Jewish inmate at a concentration camp during filming in Belarus of the film "Persian Lessons" in 2019. (JTA) - For a movie about the Holocaust, the Belarussian film "Persian Lessons" has some comic potential. Set in a concentration camp somewhere in Western Europe, it involves a Jewish inmate who survives by giving Farsi lessons to a Nazi officer who dreams about opening a restaurant in Tehran. One problem: The inmate doesn't speak Farsi. Instead he comes up with his own language and teaches it to his captor, trying not to raise suspicions.