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Persian Lessons
2020, Apr 17
2h 7m
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.
Directed by
Vadim Perelman
Alexander Beyer
Camp Commander
Lars Eidinger
Klaus Koch
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
Gilles
David Schütter
Paul
Leonie Benesch
Elsa
Jonas Nay
Max
Lola Bessis
Melanie
Luisa-Céline Gaffron
Yana
Pascal Elso
French Policeman
Andreas Hofer
Adjutant von Dewitz
Nico Ehrenteit
Obersturmführer Krupp
Marcus Calvin
American Investigator
Felix von Bredow
SS-Untersturmführer Siemens
Ingo Hülsmann
SS-Sturmbannführer Farber
Antonin Chalon
Jacob Rossi
Serge Barbagallo
France KAPO
Oleg Veber
German soldier
Anton Zhukov
German Soldier Innsbruck
Gennadiy Fomin
Farmer
Peter Beck
Nazi Doctor
Sofya Gershevich
Melanie
Elena Stetsenko
Stenographer
Mehdi Rahim-Silvioli
Nathan
Svetlana Anikey
SS German Girl 1
Elena Girenok
SS German Girl 4
Gareth McGregor
US Army Officer
Anastasia Gudei
SS German Girl 2
Veronika Buslaeva
SS German Girl 3
Maximilian Anthony Hirschle
American Soldier
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