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Uroki farsi (Original title)Уроки фарси (Original title)Persian Lessons (Alternative title)Persischstunden (Alternative title)Erfindung Einer Sprache (Help search title)
Dates: 2020 (Copyright), 25 March 2021 (Release)

Countries: Russian Federation, Germany, Belarus

Director: Vadim Perelman

Synopsis: A Jewish man in a German concentration camp pretends he is from Iran and is then forced to teach Persian, a language he does not speak, to a Nazi officer.

Genre:
Period drama

Subjects:
Holocaust, Concentration camps
Releases
Date: 25 March 2021Country: Russian FederationRelease type: TheatricalFormat: Digital Cinema Package (DCP) - Colour - SoundRuntime: 127 mins Dialogue (original): German / Dialogue (original): French / Dialogue (original): Persian
Date: 25 March 2021not specifiedRelease type: InternetFormat: Digital Cinema Package (DCP) - Colour - SoundRuntime: 127 mins Dialogue (original): German / Dialogue (original): French / Dialogue (original): PersianDistributor: Signature Entertainment

Credits (41)
©: Hype Film, ©: LM Media, ©: One Two Films, Belarusfilm, Producer: Ilya Stewart, Producer: Murad Osmann, Producer: Pavel Buria, Producer: Ilya Zofin, Producer: Vadim Perelman, Producer: Timur Bekmambetov, Producer: Rauf Atamalibekov, Line Producer: Daniil Makhort, Unit Production Manager: Anastasia Yurchenko, Unit Production Manager: Maria Bidula, Unit Production Manager: Anton Ivashevich, Location Manager: Dmitriy Kuzmitskiy, Post-production Producer: Anastasia Paklina, 1st Assistant Director: Aleksey Smolyar, Script Supervisor: Youdid Kahveci, Written by: Ilya Zofin, Based on the story Erfindung Einer Sprache by: Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Director of Photography: Wladislav Opelyants, Steadicam Operator: Alexander Vdovenko, Set Photographer: Ksenia Ugolnikova, Special Effects Supervisor: Mikhail Maryanov, Editor: Vessela Martschewski, Editor: Thibault Hague, Production Designer: Dmitriy Tatarnikov, Production Designer: Vlad Ogai, Property Master: Arkadyi Baymatov, Costume Designer: Alexey Kamyshov, Make-up Artist: Ekaterina Odintsova, Colourist: Andrey Mesnyankin, Music by: Evgueni Galperine, Sacha Galeperine, Music Performed by: National Philharmonic Orchestra of Kiev, Sound by: Boris Voyt, Re-recording Mixer: Alexey Breytburg, Stunt Co-ordinator: Tomas Ereminas, Digital Intermediate: Colorkitchen
Cast (8)
Nahuel Perez Biscayart (Gilles), Lars Eidinger (Klaus Koch), Jonas Nay (Max), Leonie Benesch (Elsa), David Schütter (Paul), Luisa-Céline Gaffron (Jana), Alexander Beyer (commandant), Andreas Höfer (von Dewitz, commandant's adjutant)