Date
Hour
Place
05/08
19:00
THE LUBELSKIE CINEMA
Perssian Lessons
reż|dir Vadim Perelman | RU, DE, BY | 2020 | 127 min
prod|pro Rauf Atamalibekov, Timur Bekmambetov, Pavel Burya, Murad Osmann, Vadim Perelman, Ilja Stewart, Ilja Zofin, scen|wr Ilja Zofin, Wolfgang Kohlhaase zdj|ph Vladislav Opeliants muz|mus Jewgieni Galperine, Sasza Galperine mon|ed Vessela Martczewski ob|cast Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Jonas Nay, David Schütter, Alexander Beyer, Andreas Hofer, Leonie Benesch dys|dis Best Film
DESCRIPTION
Europe, World War II. Belgian Jew Gilles Cremieux is sent to a concentration camp. In order to survive the inevitable execution, he invents a fictional identity for himself – he pretends to be a highly wanted Persian. He doesn’t realize that camp cook Klaus Koch’s dream is to open a restaurant in Iran after the war. Koch wants Gilles to give him Farsi lessons. Instead, Gilles invents a whole new language, creating a dictionary based on the names of fellow inmates. The film portrays an exquisitely organized deadly system, but clearly names perpetrators and victims, contesting the narrative of “just following orders.”
AWARDS
2020 Beijing IFF – nominated for Tiantian Award for Best Film2020 Łódź Transatlantyk Festival – Golden Ark for Best Film
DIRECTOR
Vadim Perelman (1969) Canadian film director and screenwriter of Ukrainian origin. Born in Kiev, he emigrated with his mother in his teens and eventually settled in Canada. He studied at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, and then at the film department in Toronto. After graduation he mainly made music videos. He later moved to Los Angeles, where he began shooting commercials. His body of work also includes acclaimed feature films. He directed two Oscar-nominated performances by Ben Kingsley and Shohreh Aghdashloo for "House of Sand and Fog" (2003).FILMOGRAPHY
2020 Poufne lekcje perskiego|Perssian Lessons2018 Kupi menya|Buy Me
2016 Ёлки 5|Yolki 5
2007 Życie przed oczami|The Life Before Her Eyes
2003 Dom z piasku i mgły|House of Sand and Fog
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