Festival selection / Film

Persian Lessons

Name: Persian Lessons
Director: Vadim Perelman
Genre: War, Drama
Released: 2020-04-17
Duration: 2 h 7 min
Cast: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Jonas Nay, Leonie Benesch, Alexander Beyer

Year: 2020
Director: Vadim Perelman
Runtime: 127 min
Genre: War, Drama

CAN 20

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Synopsis

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.