Persian Lessons

Persian Lessons

127 mins | Drama, War | April 17, 2020

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.

Persian Lessons

127 mins | Drama, War | April 17, 2020

Persian Lessons
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.
IMDb rating 7.4
Producers One Two Films, Hype Film, LM Media, Belarusfilm
Original title Persian Lessons
Directors Vadim Perelman
Writers Ilya Zofin

Cast

Lars Eidinger

as Klaus Koch

Jonas Nay

as Max

Leonie Benesch

as Elsa

Alexander Beyer

as Camp Commander

David Schütter

as Paul

Andreas Hofer

as Adjutant von Dewitz

Giuseppe Schillaci

as Marco Rossi

Antonin Chalon

as Jacob Rossi

Lola Bessis

as Melanie

Sofya Gershevich

as Melanie

Nico Ehrenteit

as Obersturmführer Krupp

Gareth McGregor

as US Army Officer

Marcus Calvin

as American Investigator

Peter Beck

as Nazi Doctor

Felix von Bredow

as SS-Untersturmführer Siemens

Oleg Veber

as German soldier

Svetlana Anikey

as SS German Girl 1

Anastasia Gudei

as SS German Girl 2

Veronika Buslaeva

as SS German Girl 3

Elena Girenok

as SS German Girl 4

Serge Barbagallo

as France KAPO

Pascal Elso

as French Policeman

Ingo Hülsmann

as SS-Sturmbannführer Farber

Elena Stetsenko

as Stenographer

Gennadiy Fomin

as Farmer

Anton Zhukov

as German Soldier Innsbruck

Maximilian Anthony Hirschle

as American Soldier