• "Persian Lessons" recounts the struggle of a Jewish deportee who pretends to be Persian.

  • He invents from scratch a language to give lessons to an SS officer who wishes to settle in Tehran after the war.

  • Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, César winner for the film "120 Beats per minute", is overwhelming as a fake Persian trying to save his skin.

We hadn't heard from Nahuel Pérez Biscayart since his appearances as an Act Up activist in

120 beats per minute

by Robin Campillo and as a broken face in

Goodbye up there

by Albert Dupontel in 2017. What a pleasure to find him again

five years later in

Persian Letters

by Vadim Perelman.

The Argentinian actor plays a Jewish deportee who passes himself off as Persian in order to escape death in 1942. It was then that he came across an SS officer who wanted to learn Farsi, a language spoken in particular in Iran, in order to open a restaurant in Tehran after the war.

The young man will have to invent an imaginary language from scratch if he wants to satisfy the thirst for linguistic culture of a man who has all the power over him.

A fine service

Nahuel, whose mother tongue, as an Argentinian, is Spanish “was incredible in his way of appropriating the language and his pronunciation is absolutely incomparable, underlines director Vadim Perelman in the press kit.

He speaks very good German, my German friends and colleagues were really impressed.

The actor's naturalness in the face of a literate but brutal executioner (Lars Eidinger who is very scary) keeps the spectator in suspense despite a few drops in pace.

Sensitivity on edge

We recognize in

Les Leçons persanes

the skin-deep sensitivity of Nahuel Pérez Biscayart.

It takes the viewer into an atrocious environment and makes them tremble for a character who is stuck in a dangerous lie.

His eyes communicate such anguish that the viewer's heart pounds as if feeling part of his ordeal.

Nahuel Pérez Biscayart won the César for best male hope in 2018 for

120 beats per minute

.

He keeps all his promises in

Les Leçons persanes

.

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