Persian Lessons (2020)
War, Drama
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
The Cast
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
Anastasia Gudei
SS German Girl 2
Veronika Buslaeva
SS German Girl 3
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
Maximilian Anthony Hirschle
American Soldier
Videos
More Like This
It's for Your Own Good
6.2/10
Dobrinya and the Dragon
7.0/10
Finde
7.5/10
Junior
6.5/10
Black Diamond
5.7/10
Chronicle of Poor Lovers
6.6/10
Kästner and Little Tuesday
7.5/10
Exit
6.2/10
Merz gegen Merz - Hochzeiten
8.0/10
Tony Parker: The Final Shot
7.1/10
The Family
7.4/10
Fedora
6.7/10
Secret Name
6.0/10
The Goldfinger
6.1/10
Offshoring
5.4/10
Who's Singin' Over There?
7.6/10
The Music Never Stopped
7.1/10
Moffie
6.6/10