I remember watching a movie a long time ago, and it brought me a lot of shock. At a certain time when I shared the information, I shared with my friends without reservation the movie " Persian Lesson " based on the real story. Even though it has been a long time since the sharing time, I still remember it vividly. The film was completed in collaboration with Russia, Germany and Belarus and was released in 2020.
The story of "Persian Lesson" takes place during World War II . Starting from the 1942 German Nazi occupation of France and the lowland countries, the slaughter of Jews. In the German-occupied area, a car full of Jews was running in the woods. In the car, a Jewish man was hungry and exchanged half a loaf of bread for a Persian book stolen from his landlord. The car stopped somewhere in the woods, and people were driven out of the car and bid farewell to the world after the Nazi machine gun strafing. However, the protagonist of the movie lay down and pretended to die before the gunshot. But he did not escape the Nazi eyes. After being discovered, he claimed that he was not a Jew, but a Persian ( Iranian , in 1935, the name Iranian was born internationally and was established in 1979 after the Islamic Republic of Iran).
Fortunately, the intermediate officer of the concentration camp, German Captain Koch (Nazi SS logistics officer), was in charge of German food and was about to find an Iranian to learn Persian. The reason why he was interested in Persian was that he wanted to open a restaurant in Tehran (the capital of Iran) after the war because his brother was there.
The male protagonist was taken to Koch by soldiers. Koch would not trust others easily, so he fought with the male protagonist many times. At first, the survival instinct lets the male protagonist pretend to be an Iranian. When it really needs a test, everyone understands that this will be an adventure. Faced with the language that he knew nothing about, the protagonist had to create a "Persian" out of thin air.
The Persian book reads the name (Reza: It is the name of the son of the owner of the book, and this name has now become the name of the male protagonist). During the first interrogation, Koch asked the male protagonist some common sense questions and asked him to say a passage in Persian, and the male protagonist passed by thrillingly. But in the next few times, Koch increased his investment layer by layer, and taught Koch 4 words every day (Koch's plan is 4 words a day, 1,152 words a year, and based on the 2 years of war, you can learn more than 2,000). The male protagonist was arranged by Koch to help the kitchen. He prefabricated Persian language related to the restaurant and food, and got away with it. But after every teaching, Corey would tell the male protagonist that if you lied to me, the ending would be miserable, you must remember. In this way, under terror and pressure, the male protagonist lived every day in difficulty.
During this period, a corporal named Bayer came to tell Koch that the male protagonist looks like a Jew in every way, so don't be deceived by him, although Koch warned the corporal that he was more wise than him and could make a judgment. But he still had doubts about the male protagonist, so he asked the male protagonist to translate 40 words to him every day. "It is easy to compile 40 words, but it is completely impossible to remember, and there will be more and more words." The male protagonist was almost desperate, and he was about to run away while he was going out to take out the trash. During the escape, I learned that the woods were swamps on one side and minefields on the other. I had to run to a high place, but I would still be chased by hunting dogs . In the end, the male protagonist gave up and ran away, and returned to the labor camp himself before the guarded soldiers picked him up. After a day of work, the hero was taken to his office by Koch. On the other hand, Koch's female assistant's job made him very dissatisfied, so he handed over the job of registering a new batch of prisoners to the male protagonist. When registering the list of Jewish prisoners, the hero had a flash of inspiration: he used the roots or partial letters of these names to form a new Persian language. When he was distributing food to Jews during the day, he kept reciting people and names and his new words.
On one side, the male protagonist is creating new words based on the list, and on the other side, Koch is holding the word card and constantly reading and reciting it. It seems that there is a day without any danger, but an accident occurs. When the male protagonist gives two different explanations to the same word, he is immediately suspicious and punches and kicks him. He is then sent to a quarry to do hard work, and is beaten at Koch's instructions.The male protagonist who could not withstand the torture eventually fainted. But what is strange is that the nonsense that the male protagonist said in a coma turned out to be fake Persian: "Mom. I want to go home." Naturally, Koch also understood, so he eliminated his suspicion of the male protagonist. Koch took the male protagonist to the clinic for treatment. The male protagonist and Koch talked in fake Persian language, and Koch even wrote a poem that longed for peace in a language that did not exist in the world, which was a bit ironic!
Days passed day by day, and the hero and Koch became more harmonious, and Koch even gave the hero clothes and food. The male protagonist is not grateful for his relatively comfortable situation. On the contrary, he has empathy and compassion for other compatriots who are suffering. He brought the canned meat that Koch gave him to a wounded and hungry compatriot who lived with him, saving his life. The hero later encountered the danger of being exposed. A real Iranian came to the concentration camp, but in the end, he was saved. The brother of the Jewish man who was helped by him was the brother of the Jewish man.
is worried and has various physical and mental tortures, which makes the male protagonist choose to die. Originally, he could not die because of Koch's rescue, but he chose to die for the younger brother of the man who had sacrificed for him. When Koch learned the news, he saved the male protagonist from the crowd who died. When Koch was questioned: You are willing to die for a mute and those unknown people. The male protagonist replied: They all have names, but you don’t know, they are not worse than you, at least they are not murderers. Koch replied: I am not a murderer either. The male protagonist said: But you are responsible for letting the murderer eat and drink.
With the Allies' gains, Berlin's Operation Command issued an order to evacuate the camp, requiring all work to stop immediately, and all evidence and remaining prisoners must be dealt with. So next, the prisoner was locked in a barracks, cut off the lighting, waiting for death. While the commanders were busy burning down all kinds of evidence and information, Koch was busy preparing before leaving, carrying money and useful items with him, and rescued the male protagonist from the barracks as soon as possible. Although the corporal reported to the commander and the organization, he failed.
video is coming to an end, and the male protagonist and Koch who were taken out of the camp escaped. When Koch spoke fake Persian with a fake passport and tried to enter the Iranian border, people thought he was talking nonsense, and he was extremely angry: "Why don't you understand?" Only then did he realize that he was deceived. The climax and shock of the
video lies in the ending. At this time, our male protagonist is sitting at the Allied Army's base, answering the Allied Army's questions. Because the Nazis destroyed the list of all the murdered Jews, when the Allies asked the male protagonist if he remembered several of them, he said, "I remember 2,840." In the surprise reaction of people, the male protagonist choked and slowly reported one name after another. These names are the source of his fabrication of fake Persian. They fooled Koch, but they were deeply engraved in the heart of the male protagonist. Behind these names are living lives, how could he forget it? Because his life was redeemed by the names of the victims he used as the root of the word, and in the end, the male protagonist used the "Persian" he created to expose the sins of the concentration camp to the Allies, allowing those who died tragically in the concentration camp to leave their names and leave traces in history.
When watching the male protagonist spitting out his name one by one, tears couldn't help but slide down. When a person survives in the world, he will always encounter suffering. He may not experience such pain as the male protagonist, but we see that the male protagonist, whose life is hanging on the line, has gone astray again and again. He has created miracles in suffering, and has sublimated the meaning of life in difficulties!
Suffering is a mirror that allows us to check the confidence of each of us through this real situation. On days when the wind is bright and the sky is always blue, we live happily, believing in all the richness and beauty we have; but when we really face the storm of life, will we still firmly believe and stick to our dreams?
For the character Koch in the movie, I think he is also the funeralist of the times. He was both a loyal Nazi and a complex and changeable person.Since childhood, his family was very poor, and later became a chef. He joined the Nazi Party in a daze, and had differences with his brother, and missed his brother. He was sometimes irritable, harsh, and fierce, such as his attitude towards female subordinates and the time when the male protagonist was almost exposed; but sometimes he was very warm, such as saving the male protagonist from being massacred, giving him clothes and food several times; he denied that he was a murderer, wrote poems that seemed to long for peace, but was indifferent to the murder of the Jews, thinking that they were unknown people; when he ran away, he also let the male protagonist go, for a bet (in fact, from the standpoint of both sides, he could not save the male protagonist at all)... His relationship with the male protagonist was completely based on the male protagonist, and finally, he spoke fake Persian with a fake passport, and when he tried to enter the Iranian border, he found himself deceived. I think he must have been full of resentment and shame at that time, regretful of believing in the male protagonist, regretful of giving food to the male protagonist, regretful of saving the male protagonist many times, regretful of telling his own story with the male protagonist...
people are all contradictory. If Koch was not forced by life, and based on his hobby for the chef profession, he would open a restaurant in Iran with his brother and enjoy food. Without war, I think he would not have become so cruel and indifferent. A smart and capable male protagonist may have a better life for himself... But these are all hypotheses. The war is indeed there, how can the eggs be completed after the collapse of the nest? So, I have to be grateful for the peaceful era we live in. Although we encounter the epidemic, how lucky and happy we are compared to every soul that has passed away in the war. So, let us learn to see ourselves correctly and others correctly. Pay attention to every life. As Warreck talked about your life in "Basic Life" is by no means accidental, God has incredible plans in everyone's life.
Finally, what I want to say is that the movie introduction of "Persian Lesson" has been completed, and World War II has ended. I believe that the epidemic we face will gradually improve, but how many people are truly redeemed on the earth where we live?
