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.

Cast

Nahuel Pérez Biscayart

Lars Eidinger

Jonas Nay

Leonie Benesch

Alexander Beyer

David Schütter

Luisa-Céline Gaffron

Andreas Hofer

Giuseppe Schillaci

Antonin Chalon

Lola Bessis

Mehdi Rahim-Silvioli

Sofya Gershevich

Nico Ehrenteit

Gareth McGregor

Marcus Calvin

Peter Beck

Felix von Bredow

Oleg Veber

Svetlana Anikey

Anastasia Gudei

Veronika Buslaeva

Elena Girenok

Serge Barbagallo

Pascal Elso

Ingo Hülsmann

Elena Stetsenko

Gennadiy Fomin

Anton Zhukov

Maximilian Anthony Hirschle