Overview - Persian Lessons

Date of release

Genres

  • War
  • Drama

Runtime: 127 minutes

Homepage: Persian Lessons

Budget

Budget data not disclosed

Revenue

Revenue data not disclosed

Spoken Languages

  • English
  • فارسی
  • Deutsch
  • Français
  • Italiano

Production companies

  • Name: Hype Film

    Production country Russia

  • Name: LM Media

    Production country Germany

  • Name: One Two Films

    Production country Germany

  • Name: Belarusfilm

    Production country Belarus

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.

Cast

  • Name: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart

    Character: Gilles

    Popularity: 3.142

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  • Name: Lars Eidinger

    Character: Klaus Koch

    Popularity: 4.584

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  • Name: Jonas Nay

    Character: Max

    Popularity: 4.299

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  • Name: Leonie Benesch

    Character: Elsa

    Popularity: 8.483

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  • Name: Alexander Beyer

    Character: Camp Commander

    Popularity: 1.874

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  • Name: David Schütter

    Character: Paul

    Popularity: 5.775

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  • Name: Luisa-Céline Gaffron

    Character: Yana

    Popularity: 2.237

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  • Name: Andreas Hofer

    Character: Adjutant von Dewitz

    Popularity: 2.047

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