Watch NowPersian Lessons (2020)
15
22/01/2021 (GB)
War, Drama
2h 7m
- 76% (436 votes)
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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.
- Vadim PerelmanDirector
- Ilya ZofinScreenplay
Status
Released
Original Language
German
Revenue
$3,825,668
Keywords
- nazi
- concentration camp
- world war ii
- concentration camp prisoner
- german officer
- exhaustion
- fictional language
- jewish
Top Billed 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
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