Persian Lessons
Release Date: 2020-04-17
Rating : 7.582/10
Duration : 127 minutes
Genres : War, Drama
Director : Vadim Perelman
Writer : Ilya Zofin
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.
Cast
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
Lars Eidinger
Jonas Nay
Leonie Benesch
Alexander Beyer
David Schütter