Persian Lessons

1080p 127 min 2020 Published on, 1 year ago

7.7

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.

Country

Belarus

Genre

War Drama

Released

17 Apr, 2020

Main Cast

Pascal Elso , Serge Barbagallo , Alexander Beyer , Nahuel Pérez Biscayart , Felix von Bredow

Supporting Cast

Nico Ehrenteit , Leonie Benesch , Lars Eidinger , Gennadiy Fomin , Antonin Chalon

nazi concentration camp concentration camp prisoner german officer exhaustion fictional language jewish