Persian Lessons (2020)
Rating: 7.6/10
Duration: 127 min
Year: 2020
Director(s): Vadim Perelman
Description:
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
- Alexander Beyer as Camp Commander
- Nahuel Pérez Biscayart as Gilles
- Lars Eidinger as Klaus Koch
- Antonin Chalon as Jacob Rossi
- Lola Bessis as Melanie
- David Schütter as Paul
- Jonas Nay as Max
- Leonie Benesch as Elsa
- Luisa-Céline Gaffron as Yana
- Andreas Hofer as Adjutant von Dewitz
- Giuseppe Schillaci as Marco Rossi
- Mehdi Rahim-Silvioli as Nathan
- Sofya Gershevich as Melanie
- Nico Ehrenteit as Obersturmführer Krupp
- Gareth McGregor as US Army Officer
