Genres
Production Companies
LM Media
One Two Films
Belarusfilm
Persian Lessons
Overview
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.
Key Crew
Producer: Murad Osmann, Pavel Burya, Ilya Stewart, Timur Bekmambetov, Rauf Atamalibekov, Ilya Zofin, Vadim Perelman
Screenplay: Ilya Zofin
Director: Vadim Perelman
Director of Photography: Vladislav Opelyants
Top Cast
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
Gilles
Lars Eidinger
Klaus Koch
Jonas Nay
Max
Leonie Benesch
Elsa
Alexander Beyer
Camp Commander
David Schütter
Paul
Luisa-Céline Gaffron
Yana
Andreas Hofer
Adjutant von Dewitz
Videos
Official Trailer [Subtitled]
UK Trailer [Subtitled]
