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UPDATED with video: "I think this story should be told all the time, especially now," director Vadim Perelman says of his historical drama Persian Lessons. The film, set during the Holocaust, chronicles how a young Belgian man avoids execution in a concentration camp by pretending he can speak Persian, teaching a…

Cohen Media Group has taken North American rights to Vadim Perelman's Persian Lessons following its well-received bow at the Berlin International Film Festival this week. The releaser is planning a late 2020 berth for the movie, which stars Nahuel Pérez Biscayart in the story of  a Belgian Jew who claims to be Persian…