Persian Lessons

7.6

Belarus

War Drama

127 min

2020

Nico Ehrenteit Anton Zhukov Gennadiy Fomin Elena Stetsenko Ingo Hülsmann Pascal Elso Serge Barbagallo Elena Girenok Svetlana Anikey Oleg Veber Felix von Bredow Peter Beck Marcus Calvin Gareth McGregor Nahuel Pérez Biscayart Sofya Gershevich Mehdi Rahim-Silvioli Lola Bessis Antonin Chalon Giuseppe Schillaci Andreas Hofer Luisa-Céline Gaffron David Schütter Alexander Beyer Leonie Benesch Jonas Nay Lars Eidinger

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.