Persian Lessons

Persian Lessons (2020)

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.

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  • Release Date: 2020-04-17
  • Runtime: 2h 7min
  • Director: Vadim Perelman

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Cast

  • Nahuel Pérez Biscayart

    Gilles

  • Lars Eidinger

    Klaus Koch

  • Jonas Nay

    Max

  • Leonie Benesch

    Elsa

  • Alexander Beyer

    Camp Commander

  • David Schütter

    Paul

  • Luisa-Céline Gaffron

    Yana

  • Andreas Hofer

    Adjutant von Dewitz

  • Giuseppe Schillaci

    Marco Rossi

  • Antonin Chalon

    Jacob Rossi

  • Lola Bessis

    Melanie

  • Mehdi Rahim-Silvioli

    Nathan

  • Sofya Gershevich

    Melanie

  • Nico Ehrenteit

    Obersturmführer Krupp

  • Gareth McGregor

    US Army Officer

  • Marcus Calvin

    American Investigator

  • Peter Beck

    Nazi Doctor

  • Felix von Bredow

    SS-Untersturmführer Siemens

  • Oleg Veber

    German soldier

  • Svetlana Anikey

    SS German Girl 1

  • Anastasia Gudei

    SS German Girl 2

  • Veronika Buslaeva

    SS German Girl 3

  • Elena Girenok

    SS German Girl 4

  • Serge Barbagallo

    France KAPO

  • Pascal Elso

    French Policeman

  • Ingo Hülsmann

    SS-Sturmbannführer Farber

  • Elena Stetsenko

    Stenographer

  • Gennadiy Fomin

    Farmer

  • Anton Zhukov

    German Soldier Innsbruck

  • Maximilian Anthony Hirschle

    American Soldier

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