Persian Lessons

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.

CastCrewDetailsGenres

Nahuel Pérez BiscayartGilles

Lars EidingerKlaus Koch

Jonas NayMax

Leonie BeneschElsa

Alexander BeyerCamp Commander

David SchütterPaul

Luisa-Céline GaffronYana

Andreas HoferAdjutant von Dewitz

Giuseppe SchillaciMarco Rossi

Antonin ChalonJacob Rossi

Lola BessisMelanie

Mehdi Rahim-SilvioliNathan

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