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Persian Lessons

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A feature film. An unconventional friendship grows between the German chef of a concentration camp kitchen and the young Belgian jew , who falsely claims to be Persian in order to survive a mass hooting and is now obliged to teach the German officer a language that he only pretends to know. Based on the short story "Erfindung einer Sprache"by Wolfgang Kohlhaase.