Persian Lessons
2020 • War | Drama
Vadim Perelman
Director
Status
Released
Release date
April 17, 2020
Duration
127 Min
Language
de
Popularity
2.078
Budget
$0
Revenue
$3,825,668
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.
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
Софья Гершевич
Nico Ehrenteit
Gareth McGregor
Marcus Calvin
Peter Beck
Felix von Bredow
Олег Вебер
Светлана Аникей
Elena Girenok
Serge Barbagallo
Pascal Elso
Ingo Hülsmann
Елена Стеценко
Gennadiy Fomin
Anton Zhukov
