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.
Vadim Perelman
Director
Alexander Beyer
as
Camp Commandant
Lars Eidinger
as
Klaus Koch
Jonas Nay
as
Max
Felix von Bredow
as
SS-Untersturmführer Siemens
Edward Berger
Director
Daniel Brühl
as
Matthias Erzberger
Luc Feit
as
Stabsarzt
Katharina Heyer
as
Else Niemoller
Simon Licht
as
Herman Punder
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