Persian Lessons

Name: Persian Lessons
Cast: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Jonas Nay, Leonie Benesch, Alexander Beyer

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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 & Crew

Director: Vadim PerelmanWriter: Ilya ZofinProducers: Ilya Stewart, Murad Osmann, Pavel Burya, Rauf Atamalibekov, Timur Bekmambetov

Nahuel Pérez Biscayart

as Gilles

Lars Eidinger

as Klaus Koch

Jonas Nay

as Max

Leonie Benesch

as Elsa

Alexander Beyer

as Camp Commander

David Schütter

as Paul

Luisa-Céline Gaffron

as Yana

Andreas Hofer

as Adjutant von Dewitz

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