Presenting Partner Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center
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Based on the novel by Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Gilles, a young Jewish Belgian man, narrowly survives arrest and execution in 1942 by falsely claiming to be Persian. In a German concentration camp, Gilles is assigned a seemingly implausible mission: to teach Farsi to Klaus Koch, the officer in charge of the camp’s kitchen, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Persia (Iran) once the war is over. Gilles finds himself having to invent a language he doesn’t know, word by word. One false move could expose everything.
Content Warning: violence, nudity, sexual references
- Year2020
- Runtime120 minutes
- LanguageGerman, French, Italian, English
- CountryBelarus
- Premiere2020 Berlin International Film Festival
- DirectorVadim Perelman
- ScreenwriterIlja Zofin (based on the novel “Erfindung einer Sprache”, by Wolfgang Kohlhaase)
- ProducerHype Film, LM Media, One Two Films, Belarusfilm
- CastNahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Jonas Nay, Leonie Benesch
Presenting Partner Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center
Ticket includes a film festival gift! To guarantee gift, please purchase tickets by January 21 and record your physical mailing address in your Eventive account information.
Based on the novel by Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Gilles, a young Jewish Belgian man, narrowly survives arrest and execution in 1942 by falsely claiming to be Persian. In a German concentration camp, Gilles is assigned a seemingly implausible mission: to teach Farsi to Klaus Koch, the officer in charge of the camp’s kitchen, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Persia (Iran) once the war is over. Gilles finds himself having to invent a language he doesn’t know, word by word. One false move could expose everything.
Content Warning: violence, nudity, sexual references
- Year2020
- Runtime120 minutes
- LanguageGerman, French, Italian, English
- CountryBelarus
- Premiere2020 Berlin International Film Festival
- DirectorVadim Perelman
- ScreenwriterIlja Zofin (based on the novel “Erfindung einer Sprache”, by Wolfgang Kohlhaase)
- ProducerHype Film, LM Media, One Two Films, Belarusfilm
- CastNahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Jonas Nay, Leonie Benesch