Movie

Persian Lessons

2020★ 7.5

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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Cast

Nahuel Pérez BiscayartGilles
Lars EidingerKlaus Koch
Jonas NayMax
Leonie BeneschElsa
Alexander BeyerCamp Commander
David SchütterPaul
Luisa-Céline GaffronYana
Andreas HoferAdjutant von Dewitz
Giuseppe SchillaciMarco Rossi
Antonin ChalonJacob Rossi
Lola BessisMelanie
Mehdi Rahim-SilvioliNathan

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