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