Persian Lessons
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Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by inventing words of "Farsi" every day and teaching them to Koch.
Status: Released
Released Date: 2020-04-17
Runtime: 127 mins
Director: Vadim Perelman
Spoken language: Deutsch, English, Français, Italiano, فارسی
Genres: War, Drama
Original title: Persian Lessons
Production Companies: Hype Film, LM Media, One Two Films, Belarusfilm
Production Countries: Russia, Germany, Belarus
Cast
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
Lars Eidinger
Jonas Nay
Leonie Benesch
Alexander Beyer
David Schütter
Luisa-Céline Gaffron
Andreas Hofer
Giuseppe Schillaci
Antonin Chalon
Lola Bessis
Mehdi Rahim-Silvioli
Sofya Gershevich
Nico Ehrenteit
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