War ·Drama · Russia · 2020 · 2h 7m

Persian Lessons

Persian Lessons poster
Director
Vadim Perelman
Cast
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
Crew
Vladislav Opelyants — Director of Photography Vessela Martschewski — Editor Evgueni Galperine — Original Music Composer Sacha Galperine — Original Music Composer Ilya Zofin — Screenplay Ilya Stewart — Producer
Synopsis

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.

Trailer Persian Lessons — Official Trailer
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Mood & Themes
naziconcentration campworld war iiconcentration camp prisonergerman officerbased on short storyexhaustionfictional languagejewish
Key Collaborators
Vadim Perelman Director Vladislav Opelyants Director of Photography Vessela Martschewski Editor Evgueni Galperine Original Music Composer Sacha Galperine Original Music Composer Ilya Zofin Screenplay Ilya Stewart Producer Murad Osmann Producer Pavel Burya Producer Ilya Zofin Producer Vadim Perelman Producer Timur Bekmambetov Producer
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