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    Jan 28, 2021 7 minutes

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    Tom Garner, Callum McKelvie, Jonathan Gordon, Catherine Curzon

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    A finely acted Holocaust film that suffers from its implausible storyline

    Director: Vadim Perelman Cast: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Jonas Nay Released: 29 January 2021

    Imagine that you’re a prisoner being transported to a Nazi concentration camp in 1942. A difficult and frightening situation to put it mildly, but then consider that in order to survive your only available option is to masquerade… as an Iranian. These are the circumstances pitched as being based on true events that drive the story of this new Holocaust film. A Belarussian production directed by Ukrainian filmmaker Vadim Perelman, follows the struggles of Belgian Jew Gilles (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) as he narrowly avoids death. Over the course of the film he is forced to teach Farsi to the camp commandant Koch (Lars Eidinger) – a frustrated chef who dreams of opening a restaurant in Tehran after the war. This already implausible plot then has a twist – Gilles speaks no Farsi and has to invent a whole new

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