Persian Lessons

Persian Lessons (2020)

Persischstunden

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.

Date of release
2020-04-17
TMDB
7.6 / 10 (523)
Runtime
2h 7m
Genres
War, Drama
Director
Vadim Perelman

Casting

  • 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

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