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Persian Lessons

  • April 2020
  • 2hrs

    7mins

  • War
  • Drama
  • Directed by

    Vadim Perelman,

    Starring

    Nahuel Pérez Biscayart,

    Lars Eidinger,

    Jonas Nay,

    Leonie Benesch

    ...

    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.