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Persian Lessons (2020)

Persian Lessons (2020)

Drama War
Release Date: 2020, April 17
Directors: Vadim Perelman
Countries: Belarus, Germany, France, Russia
Production: LM Media, One Two Films, Belarusfilm, Hype Studios
Cast: David Schütter, Felix von Bredow, Nico Ehrenteit, Alexander Beyer, Lars Eidinger, Leonie Benesch, Pascal Elso, Mehdi Rahim-Silvioli, Lola Bessis, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Sofya Gershevich, Ingo Hülsmann

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.

Keywords:

world war ii based on short story nazi concentration camp concentration camp prisoner jewish fictional language german officer exhaustion