Persian Lessons (2020)
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.
Cast
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Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
as Gilles
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Lars Eidinger
as Klaus Koch
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Jonas Nay
as Max
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Leonie Benesch
as Elsa
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Alexander Beyer
as Camp Commander
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David Schütter
as Paul
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Luisa-Céline Gaffron
as Yana
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Andreas Hofer
as Adjutant von Dewitz
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Giuseppe Schillaci
as Marco Rossi
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Antonin Chalon
as Jacob Rossi
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Lola Bessis
as Melanie
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Mehdi Rahim-Silvioli
as Nathan
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Sofya Gershevich
as Melanie
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Nico Ehrenteit
as Obersturmführer Krupp
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Gareth McGregor
as US Army Officer
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Marcus Calvin
as American Investigator
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Peter Beck
as Nazi Doctor
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Felix von Bredow
as SS-Untersturmführer Siemens
Crew
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Vadim Perelman
Director
- Vladislav Opelyants Director of Photography
- Vessela Martschewski Editor
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Evgueni Galperine
Original Music Composer
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Sacha Galperine
Original Music Composer
- Ilya Stewart Producer
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Murad Osmann
Producer
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Pavel Burya
Producer
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Ilya Zofin
Producer
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Vadim Perelman
Producer
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Timur Bekmambetov
Producer
- Rauf Atamalibekov Producer
