In “Schindler’s List,” most of the actors spoke English, using accents to indicate their characters’ origins. In “Son of Saul,” the cast struggles to communicate in a mish-mosh of languages, as Jews ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “I think this story should be told all the time, especially now,” director Vadim Perelman says of his historical drama Persian ...

A Jewish Frenchman posing as a Persian eludes death by teaching a fictional form of the Persian language to a Nazi commandant in this improbable Holocaust drama. By Beatrice Loayza When you purchase a ...

Belgian Jew Gilles is arrested and sent to a concentration camp. Narrowly escaping execution by pretending to be Persian, he then faces the challenge of teaching Hauptsturmführer Koch Persian - a ...

China is belatedly scrambling to fill in its post-Lunar New Year screening calendar, announcing Tuesday that it would round out its March offerings with foreign title “Persian Lessons” and a ...

The Holocaust drama 'Persian Lessons,' from Vadim Perelman ('House of Sand and Fog'), stars Nahuel Perez Biscayart ('BPM') and Lars Eidinger ('Personal Shopper'). By Boyd van Hoeij A Jewish prisoner ...