Persian Lessons
Persian Lessons
Release: 2020-04-17
·Runtime: 127m
·★ 7.5
War
Drama
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.
Production Countries
Russia
Germany
Belarus
Production Companies
Hype Film
LM Media
One Two Films
Belarusfilm
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Jonas Nay
as Max
Leonie Benesch
as Elsa
Alexander Beyer
as Camp Commander
Sofya Gershevich
as Melanie
Gennadiy Fomin
as Farmer
Lars Eidinger
as Klaus Koch
Mehdi Rahim-Silvioli
as Nathan
Peter Beck
as Nazi Doctor
Felix von Bredow
as SS-Untersturmführer Siemens
Anton Zhukov
as German Soldier Innsbruck
Ingo Hülsmann
as SS-Sturmbannführer Farber
Andreas Hofer
as Adjutant von Dewitz
Nico Ehrenteit
as Obersturmführer Krupp
Gareth McGregor
as US Army Officer
Oleg Veber
as German soldier
Svetlana Anikey
as SS German Girl 1
David Schütter
as Paul
Antonin Chalon
as Jacob Rossi
Lola Bessis
as Melanie
Pascal Elso
as French Policeman
Elena Stetsenko
as Stenographer
Elena Girenok
as SS German Girl 4
Serge Barbagallo
as France KAPO
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
as Gilles
Luisa-Céline Gaffron
as Yana
Giuseppe Schillaci
as Marco Rossi
Marcus Calvin
as American Investigator
Crew
Murad Osmann
Producer
Evgueni Galperine
Original Music Composer
Vladislav Opelyants
Director of Photography
Sacha Galperine
Original Music Composer
Jamila Wenske
Co-Producer
Timur Bekmambetov
Producer
Ilya Zofin
Screenplay, Producer
Vadim Perelman
Director, Producer
Pavel Burya
Producer
Ilya Dzhincharadze
Co-Producer