Persian Lessons (2020)
Starring Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Jonas Nay
Directed by Vadim Perelman
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.
Runtime: 127 min.
Rating: 7.653
DVD
Languages: Deutsch,English,Français,Italiano,فارسی
Countries: Belarus,Germany,Russia
Genres: Drama,War
Keywords: nazi,concentration camp,world war ii,concentration camp prisoner,german officer,exhaustion,fictional language,jewish
Cast
Gilles
Klaus Koch
Max
Elsa
Camp Commander
Paul
Yana
Adjutant von Dewitz
Marco Rossi
Jacob Rossi
Melanie
Nathan
Melanie
Obersturmführer Krupp
US Army Officer
American Investigator
Nazi Doctor
SS-Untersturmführer Siemens
German soldier
SS German Girl 1
SS German Girl 2
SS German Girl 3
SS German Girl 4
France KAPO
French Policeman
SS-Sturmbannführer Farber
Stenographer
Farmer
German Soldier Innsbruck
American Soldier