Persian Lessons
2020/04/17 • Released • German, English, French, Italian, Persian
Overview
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.
Director : Vadim Perelman
Casts
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
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
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