Persian Lessons
April 17, 20202h 7m★ 7.5Released
Genres
WarDrama
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.
Starring
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Jonas Nay, Leonie Benesch, Alexander Beyer, David Schütter
Directed by
Vadim Perelman
Produced by
Murad Osmann, Pavel Burya, Ilya Stewart
Language
DE
Country
Russia, Germany, Belarus
Revenue
$3,825,668