Movie
Persian Lessons (2020)
Persischstunden
127 min
- War
- Drama
- Director
- Vadim Perelman
- Released
- April 17, 2020
Synopsis
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.
Cast
- Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
- Lars Eidinger
- Jonas Nay
- Leonie Benesch
- Alexander Beyer
- David Schütter
- Luisa-Céline Gaffron
- Andreas Hofer
- Giuseppe Schillaci
- Antonin Chalon
- Lola Bessis
- Mehdi Rahim-Silvioli