Persian Lessons (2020)

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.

Directing:
  • Vadim Perelman

Writing:
  • Ilya Zofin

Stars:
Release Date: 2020-04-17
themoviedb icon 7.6/10
  • Country: BY, DE, RU
  • Language: English | فارسی | Deutsch | Français | Italiano
  • Runtime: 127
  • Revenue: $3,825,668

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