Persian Lessons

Persian Lessons (2020)

War Drama

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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    • Trailer

    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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