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.
Title:Persian Lessons
Year:2020
Country:Russia, Germany, Belarus
Studio:Hype Film, LM Media, One Two Films, Belarusfilm
Cast:Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Jonas Nay, Leonie Benesch, Alexander Beyer, David Schütter
Crew:Sergey Toktarov (Visual Effects Supervisor), Nadezhda Zezyukova (Visual Effects Producer), Murad Osmann (Producer), Ilya Zofin (Screenplay), Vessela Martschewski (Editor), Vadim Perelman (Director)
Keyword:nazi, concentration camp, world war ii, concentration camp prisoner, german officer, exhaustion, fictional language, jewish
Release: Apr 17, 2020
Runtime: 127 minutes
IMDb: 7.578 / 10 by 436 users
Popularity: 2.4553
Budget: $0
Revenue: $3825668
Language: English, Italiano, Deutsch, فارسی, Français
