Persian Lessons
movie
Released April 17, 2020
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.
Cast
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
as
Gilles
Lars Eidinger
as
Klaus Koch
Jonas Nay
as
Max
Leonie Benesch
as
Elsa
Alexander Beyer
as
Camp Commander
David Schütter
as
Paul
Luisa-Céline Gaffron
as
Yana
Andreas Hofer
as
Adjutant von Dewitz
Giuseppe Schillaci
as
Marco Rossi
Antonin Chalon
as
Jacob Rossi
Lola Bessis
as
Melanie
Mehdi Rahim-Silvioli
as
Nathan
Crew
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Sergey Toktarov
as
Visual Effects Supervisor
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Nadezhda Zezyukova
as
Visual Effects Producer
Murad Osmann
as
Producer
Ilya Zofin
as
Screenplay
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Vessela Martschewski
as
Editor
Vadim Perelman
as
Director
Pavel Burya
as
Producer
Vladislav Opelyants
as
Director of Photography
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Ilya Stewart
as
Producer
Ilya Dzhincharadze
as
Co-Producer
Sacha Galperine
as
Original Music Composer
Jamila Wenske
as
Co-Producer