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
Giuseppe Schillaci
as Marco Rossi
Lola Bessis
as Melanie
Serge Barbagallo
as France KAPO
Leonie Benesch
as Elsa
Sofya Gershevich
as Melanie
Nico Ehrenteit
as Obersturmführer Krupp
Peter Beck
as Nazi Doctor
Oleg Veber
as German soldier
Lars Eidinger
as Klaus Koch
Luisa-Céline Gaffron
as Yana
Elena Girenok
as SS German Girl 4
Gennadiy Fomin
as Farmer
Mehdi Rahim-Silvioli
as Nathan
Pascal Elso
as French Policeman
Jonas Nay
as Max
Antonin Chalon
as Jacob Rossi
Elena Stetsenko
as Stenographer
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
as Gilles
Felix von Bredow
as SS-Untersturmführer Siemens
Svetlana Anikey
as SS German Girl 1
Anton Zhukov
as German Soldier Innsbruck
Marcus Calvin
as American Investigator
Andreas Hofer
as Adjutant von Dewitz
Gareth McGregor
as US Army Officer
Ingo Hülsmann
as SS-Sturmbannführer Farber
Alexander Beyer
as Camp Commander
David Schütter
as Paul
Crew
Vladislav Opelyants
Director of Photography
Murad Osmann
Producer
Pavel Burya
Producer
Ilya Dzhincharadze
Co-Producer
Sacha Galperine
Original Music Composer
Vadim Perelman
Director, Producer
Jamila Wenske
Co-Producer
Evgueni Galperine
Original Music Composer
Ilya Zofin
Screenplay, Producer
Timur Bekmambetov
Producer