and frequent Berlinale film star Lars Eidinger on Saturday championed their new Holocaust-set “Persian Lessons” as a timely, very German tale of how that dark history is closer to us than it seems, made uniquely possible by the fact that most of the film’s production team is not German.
Set in 1942, “Persian Lessons” tells the story of a young Belgian Jew who avoids execution in a German concentration camp by pretending to be Persian, not Jewish, and winds up teaching Farsi, a language he doesn’t know, to a Nazi officer who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran after the war. He was drawn to the project because of his own Jewish heritage, which was a theme he felt was “important to somehow touch on and then let go.” Most films portray Nazis as robots or automatons, but he wanted to move beyond this and craft a humanizing depiction of a Nazi who felt jealousy and fear and love like any other man.“That humanization is not to in any way to pat them on the back for what they did.
The fact that a Ukraine-born American director living in Canada is directing this Russian project in German has given the film a unique voice, said lead actor Eidinger, who is also starring in the main competition title “My Little Sister.”
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