Persian Lessons (2020)
Kernel Score: 83% · 474 ratings
Genres: War, Drama
Released: 2020-04-17
Runtime: 127 minutes
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.
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Cast
- Nahuel Pérez Biscayart as Gilles
- Lars Eidinger as Klaus Koch
- Jonas Nay as Max
- Leonie Benesch as Elsa
- Alexander Beyer as Camp Commander
- David Schütter as Paul
- Luisa-Céline Gaffron as Yana
- Andreas Hofer as Adjutant von Dewitz
- Giuseppe Schillaci as Marco Rossi
- Antonin Chalon as Jacob Rossi