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.

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  Nahuel Pérez Biscayart

  Gilles
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  Lars Eidinger

  Klaus Koch
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  Jonas Nay

  Max
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  Leonie Benesch

  Elsa
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  Alexander Beyer

  Camp Commander
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  David Schütter

  Paul
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  Luisa-Céline Gaffron

  Yana
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  Andreas Hofer

  Adjutant von Dewitz
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  Giuseppe Schillaci

  Marco Rossi
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  Antonin Chalon

  Jacob Rossi