Persian Lessons

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 Gilles

Lars Eidinger Klaus Koch

Jonas Nay Max

Leonie Benesch Elsa

Alexander Beyer Camp Commander

David Schütter Paul

Luisa-Céline Gaffron Yana

Andreas Hofer Adjutant von Dewitz

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