Persian Lessons

Persian Lessons by Vadim Perelman

7.62

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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Cast

Nahuel Pérez Biscayart

Nahuel Pérez Biscayart as Gilles

Lars Eidinger

Lars Eidinger as Klaus Koch

Jonas Nay

Jonas Nay as Max

Leonie Benesch

Leonie Benesch as Elsa

Alexander Beyer

Alexander Beyer as Camp Commander

David Schütter

David Schütter as Paul

Luisa-Céline Gaffron

Luisa-Céline Gaffron as Yana

Andreas Hofer

Andreas Hofer as Adjutant von Dewitz

Giuseppe Schillaci

Giuseppe Schillaci as Marco Rossi

Antonin Chalon

Antonin Chalon as Jacob Rossi

Lola Bessis

Lola Bessis as Melanie

Mehdi Rahim-Silvioli

Mehdi Rahim-Silvioli as Nathan

Sofya Gershevich

Sofya Gershevich as Melanie

Nico Ehrenteit

Nico Ehrenteit as Obersturmführer Krupp

Gareth McGregor

Gareth McGregor as US Army Officer

Marcus Calvin

Marcus Calvin as American Investigator

Peter Beck

Peter Beck as Nazi Doctor

Felix von Bredow

Felix von Bredow as SS-Untersturmführer Siemens

Oleg Veber

Oleg Veber as German soldier

Svetlana Anikey

Svetlana Anikey as SS German Girl 1

Anastasia Gudei

Anastasia Gudei as SS German Girl 2

Veronika Buslaeva

Veronika Buslaeva as SS German Girl 3

Elena Girenok

Elena Girenok as SS German Girl 4

Serge Barbagallo

Serge Barbagallo as France KAPO

Pascal Elso

Pascal Elso as French Policeman

Ingo Hülsmann

Ingo Hülsmann as SS-Sturmbannführer Farber

Elena Stetsenko

Elena Stetsenko as Stenographer

Gennadiy Fomin

Gennadiy Fomin as Farmer

Anton Zhukov

Anton Zhukov as German Soldier Innsbruck

Maximilian Anthony Hirschle

Maximilian Anthony Hirschle as American Soldier

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