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Persian Lessons
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Title: Persian Lessons

Release Date: 17 Apr 2020

Runtime: 2h 7m

Genre: War, Drama

Director: Hype Film, LM Media, One Two Films, Belarusfilm

Production Companies: Hype Film, LM Media, One Two Films, Belarusfilm

Overview: 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.

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Average Vote: 7.619 (404 votes)

Cast

  • Gilles: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
  • Klaus Koch: Lars Eidinger
  • Max: Jonas Nay
  • Elsa: Leonie Benesch
  • Camp Commander: Alexander Beyer
  • Paul: David Schütter
  • Yana: Luisa-Céline Gaffron
  • Adjutant von Dewitz: Andreas Hofer
  • Marco Rossi: Giuseppe Schillaci
  • Jacob Rossi: Antonin Chalon
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