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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Nahuel Pérez Biscayart as Gilles
Lars Eidinger as Klaus Koch
Jonas Nay as Max
Leonie Benesch as Elsa
Alexander Beyer as Camp Commander
David Schütter as Paul
Luisa-Céline Gaffron as Yana
Andreas Hofer as Adjutant von Dewitz
Giuseppe Schillaci as Marco Rossi
Antonin Chalon as Jacob Rossi
Lola Bessis as Melanie
Mehdi Rahim-Silvioli as Nathan
Sofya Gershevich as Melanie
Nico Ehrenteit as Obersturmführer Krupp
Gareth McGregor as US Army Officer
Marcus Calvin as American Investigator
Peter Beck as Nazi Doctor
Felix von Bredow as SS-Untersturmführer Siemens
Oleg Veber as German soldier
Svetlana Anikey as SS German Girl 1
Anastasia Gudei as SS German Girl 2
Veronika Buslaeva as SS German Girl 3
Elena Girenok as SS German Girl 4
Serge Barbagallo as France KAPO
Pascal Elso as French Policeman
Ingo Hülsmann as SS-Sturmbannführer Farber
Elena Stetsenko as Stenographer
Gennadiy Fomin as Farmer
Anton Zhukov as German Soldier Innsbruck
Maximilian Anthony Hirschle as American Soldier
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