The distribution and production company Cohen Media Group has acquired North American rights to the Holocaust-era drama “Persian Lessons” and plans to release the film in late 2020, according to an article in Variety.

Set in 1942, the film is about a Belgian Jew in a German concentration camp who claims to be Persian to avoid being executed. The prisoner tries to save himself by agreeing to teach Farsi, a language he does not know and subsequently makes up, to a Nazi officer who hopes to open a restaurant in Iran after the war.

The film, based on the story “Erfindung Einer Sprache” by Wolfgang Kohlhaase, was first written in Russian, then translated into English and eventually into German. The film had its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival on Feb. 22.