Film

Persian Lessons

2020 · 2h 7m · War · Drama

IMDb

7.4

Rotten Tomatoes

80%

Metacritic

53

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.

Nahuel Pérez Biscayart

Gilles

Lars Eidinger

Klaus Koch

Jonas Nay

Max

Leonie Benesch

Elsa

Alexander Beyer

Camp Commander

David Schütter

Paul

Luisa-Céline Gaffron

Yana

Andreas Hofer

Adjutant von Dewitz

Giuseppe Schillaci

Marco Rossi

Antonin Chalon

Jacob Rossi

Lola Bessis

Melanie

Mehdi Rahim-Silvioli

Nathan

Sofya Gershevich

Melanie

Nico Ehrenteit

Obersturmführer Krupp

Gareth McGregor

US Army Officer

Marcus Calvin

American Investigator

• Vadim PerelmanDirector · Producer
• Ilya ZofinScreenplay · Producer
• Murad OsmannProducer
• Pavel BuryaProducer
• Ilya StewartProducer
• Rauf AtamalibekovProducer
• Timur BekmambetovProducer
• Vladislav OpelyantsDirector of Photography
• Sacha GalperineOriginal Music Composer
• Evgueni GalperineOriginal Music Composer

Official Trailer [Subtitled]UK Trailer [Subtitled]

Release date

April 17, 2020

Status

Released

Original language

German

Runtime

2h 7m

Rated

M

Revenue

$3,825,668

Genres

War, Drama

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