Persian Lessons
7.6 / 10
127 minutes
2020-04-17
English
BY
Actors :
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Jonas Nay, Leonie Benesch, Alexander Beyer, David Schütter, Luisa-Céline Gaffron, Andreas Hofer, Giuseppe Schillaci, Antonin Chalon, Lola Bessis, Mehdi Rahim-Silvioli, Sofya Gershevich, Nico Ehrenteit, Gareth McGregor
Description
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.