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    Persian Lessons 2020 POSTER

    Persian Lessons

    2020

    German

    7.4

    18

    80%

    88%

    Action

    concentration camp

    concentration camp prisoner

    Drama

    german officer

    nazi

    persian

    War

    world war ii

    Vadim Perelman Vadim Perelman Director Alexander Beyer Alexander Beyer as Camp Commandant Lars Eidinger Lars Eidinger as Klaus Koch Jonas Nay Jonas Nay as Max Felix von Bredow Felix von Bredow as SS-Untersturmführer Siemens
    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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