Persian Lessons

Persian Lessons (2020)

Timing: 2:7 (127 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2020-04-17

Country

Belarus, Germany, Russia

Production

One Two Films, Hype Film, LM Media, Belarusfilm

Genre

War, Drama

Budget

Revenue

$3 825 668

Website

https://www.hypepro.tv/filmtv/video/persian-lessons

Director

Vadim Perelman

Actors

Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Jonas Nay, Leonie Benesch, Alexander Beyer, David Schütter, Luisa-Céline Gaffron, Andreas Hofer, Giuseppe Schillaci, Antonin Chalon
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Scenario

Producer

Timur Bekmambetov, Vadim Perelman, Ilya Zofin, Murad Osmann, Ilya Stewart, Pavel Burya, Rauf Atamalibekov

Operator

Vladislav Opelyants

Composer

Evgueni Galperine

Artist

Audition

Editing

Vessela Martschewski
All team (19)

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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