Persian Lessons

7.6
  • Genre: WarDrama
  • Run time: 127 min
  • Premiere: 2020. April 17.

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.

Discover

Lars Eidinger

Klaus Koch

Alexander Beyer

Camp Commander

Andreas Hofer

Adjutant von Dewitz

Giuseppe Schillaci

Marco Rossi

Antonin Chalon

Jacob Rossi

Lola Bessis

Melanie

Nico Ehrenteit

Obersturmführer Krupp

Gareth McGregor

US Army Officer

Marcus Calvin

American Investigator

Peter Beck

Nazi Doctor

Felix von Bredow

SS-Untersturmführer Siemens

Oleg Veber

German soldier

Svetlana Anikey

SS German Girl 1

Anastasia Gudei

SS German Girl 2

Veronika Buslaeva

SS German Girl 3

Elena Girenok

SS German Girl 4

Serge Barbagallo

France KAPO

Pascal Elso

French Policeman

Ingo Hülsmann

SS-Sturmbannführer Farber

Elena Stetsenko

Stenographer

Anton Zhukov

German Soldier Innsbruck

Art

Dmitry Tatarnikov

Production Design

Camera

Vladislav Opelyants

Director of Photography

Directing

Vadim Perelman

Director

Editing

Production

Murad Osmann

Producer

Pavel Burya

Producer

Ilya Stewart

Producer

Leonid Shpolsky

Co-Producer

Ilya Dzhincharadze

Co-Producer

Elizaveta Chalenko

Co-Producer

Jamila Wenske

Co-Producer

Sol Bondy

Co-Producer

Ilya Zofin

Producer

Vadim Perelman

Producer

Sound

Sacha Galperine

Original Music Composer

Evgueni Galperine

Original Music Composer

Writing

Ilya Zofin

Screenplay