Persian Lessons (2020)
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.
Key facts
- Released:
- 2020-04-17
- Runtime:
- 127 min
- Genres:
- War, Drama
- Director:
- Vadim Perelman
- Top cast:
- Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Jonas Nay, Leonie Benesch, Alexander Beyer, David Schütter
- Original language:
- DE
- TMDB rating:
- 7.5/10 from 482 votes
- Bynge Score:
- 7.4/10