Persian Lessons (2020)2h07
War · Drama
Director Vadim Perelman (6.9 avg)
Also directed House of Sand and Fog, The Life Before Her Eyes, The Passenger, and 2 more
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.
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Cast
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
Lars Eidinger
Jonas Nay
Leonie Benesch
Alexander Beyer
David Schütter
Luisa-Céline Gaffron
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