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.
Trailer
Cast
Ingo Hülsmann
SS-Sturmbannführer Farber
Jonas Nay
Max
Leonie Benesch
Elsa
Lola Bessis
Melanie
Gareth McGregor
US Army Officer
Luisa-Céline Gaffron
Yana
Svetlana Anikey
SS German Girl 1
David Schütter
Paul
Serge Barbagallo
France KAPO
Alexander Beyer
Camp Commander
Mehdi Rahim-Silvioli
Nathan
Sofya Gershevich
Melanie
Marcus Calvin
American Investigator
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
Gilles
Lars Eidinger
Klaus Koch
Nico Ehrenteit
Obersturmführer Krupp
Pascal Elso
French Policeman
Peter Beck
Nazi Doctor
Felix von Bredow
SS-Untersturmführer Siemens
Oleg Veber
German soldier
Gennadiy Fomin
Farmer
Antonin Chalon
Jacob Rossi
Elena Stetsenko
Stenographer
Andreas Hofer
Adjutant von Dewitz
Giuseppe Schillaci
Marco Rossi
Elena Girenok
SS German Girl 4
Anton Zhukov
German Soldier Innsbruck