Persian Lessons

Persian Lessons

Released on
War, Drama
Runtime
127 mins
(399 votes)

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
  • 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

Director

  • Vadim Perelman

Producers

  • Murad Osmann
  • Pavel Burya
  • Ilya Stewart
  • Timur Bekmambetov
  • Rauf Atamalibekov
  • Ilya Zofin
  • Vadim Perelman

Screenwriter

  • Ilya Zofin

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