Persian Lessons

Category: Movies •

Genre: War • Drama •

Rating: 7.541

Director: Vadim Perelman,

Writer: Ilya Zofin (Screenplay),

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, Gareth McGregor, Marcus Calvin, Peter Beck, Felix von Bredow, Oleg Veber, Svetlana Anikey, Anastasia Gudei, Veronika Buslaeva, Elena Girenok, Serge Barbagallo, Pascal Elso, Ingo Hülsmann, Elena Stetsenko, Gennadiy Fomin, Anton Zhukov, Maximilian Anthony Hirschle,

Language: de

Country: Belarus

Release Date: April 17, 2020

Plot: 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.