Persian Lessons
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7.5Occupied 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.
Released: 2020-04-17127 minDir: Vadim PerelmanWar, Drama
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
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Ratings · OMDb
IMDb
7.4/10
14,370 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
80%
Metacritic
53/100
- Awards
- 9 wins & 15 nominations total
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Key dates
- Published
- 19 January 2022
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Participant in
- 33rd European Film Awards
- Genre
- historical film
- Country of origin
- Belarus
- Original language
- Persian
- Main subject
- Persian
- Director
- Vadim Perelman
- Cast member
- Pascal Elso
- Producer
- Timur Bekmambetov
- Production company
- Belarusfilm