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Persian Lessons

7.59 average rating
★★★★★
7.59
English / 127 MIN. / 2020

The Genres

The Synopsis

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.

The Cast

Nahuel Pérez BiscayartLars EidingerJonas NayLeonie BeneschAlexander BeyerDavid SchütterLuisa-Céline GaffronAndreas HoferGiuseppe SchillaciAntonin ChalonLola BessisMehdi Rahim-SilvioliSofya GershevichNico EhrenteitGareth McGregorMarcus CalvinPeter BeckFelix von BredowOleg VeberSvetlana AnikeyAnastasia GudeiVeronika BuslaevaElena GirenokSerge BarbagalloPascal ElsoIngo HülsmannElena StetsenkoGennadiy FominAnton ZhukovMaximilian Anthony Hirschle

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