Persian Lessons (2020)

04/17/2020 2h 7m

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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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Cast Ages at Release

Nahuel Pérez Biscayart

as Gilles

Born 03/06/1986, age

Lars Eidinger

as Klaus Koch

Born 01/21/1976, age

Jonas Nay

as Max

Born 09/20/1990, age

Leonie Benesch

as Elsa

Born 04/22/1991, age

Alexander Beyer

as Camp Commander

Born 06/24/1973, age