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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.

2020 |2h 7m |  War, Drama

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Cast

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Nahuel Pérez Biscayart

Gilles

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Lars Eidinger

Klaus Koch

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Jonas Nay

Max

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Leonie Benesch

Elsa

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Alexander Beyer

Camp Commander

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David Schütter

Paul

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Luisa-Céline Gaffron

Yana

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Andreas Hofer

Adjutant von Dewitz

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Antonin Chalon

Jacob Rossi

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Lola Bessis

Melanie

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Mehdi Rahim-Silvioli

Nathan

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Sofya Gershevich

Melanie

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Nico Ehrenteit

Obersturmführer Krupp

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Gareth McGregor

US Army Officer

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Marcus Calvin

American Investigator

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Peter Beck

Nazi Doctor

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Felix von Bredow

SS-Untersturmführer Siemens

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Oleg Veber

German soldier

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Svetlana Anikey

SS German Girl 1

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Elena Girenok

SS German Girl 4

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Serge Barbagallo

France KAPO

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Pascal Elso

French Policeman

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Ingo Hülsmann

SS-Sturmbannführer Farber

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Elena Stetsenko

Stenographer

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Gennadiy Fomin

Farmer

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Anton Zhukov

German Soldier Innsbruck

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Status

Released

Language

English, Persian, German, French, Italian

Budget

-

Revenue

$3,825,668.00