Persian Lessons

Persian Lessons (2024)

2024

War / Drama

7.694 from 10 with total 314 votes

2020-04-17

127 minutes

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.

Nahuel Pérez Biscayart character Gilles

Lars Eidinger character Klaus Koch

Jonas Nay character Max

Leonie Benesch character Elsa

Alexander Beyer character Camp Commander

David Schütter character Paul

Luisa-Céline Gaffron character Yana

Andreas Hofer character Adjutant von Dewitz

Giuseppe Schillaci character Marco Rossi

Antonin Chalon character Jacob Rossi

Lola Bessis character Melanie

Mehdi Rahim-Silvioli character Nathan

Sofya Gershevich character Melanie

Nico Ehrenteit character Obersturmführer Krupp

Gareth McGregor character US Army Officer

Marcus Calvin character American Investigator

Peter Beck character Nazi Doctor

Felix von Bredow character SS-Untersturmführer Siemens

Oleg Veber character German soldier

Svetlana Anikey character SS German Girl 1

Anastasia Gudei character SS German Girl 2

Veronika Buslaeva character SS German Girl 3

Elena Girenok character SS German Girl 4

Serge Barbagallo character France KAPO

Pascal Elso character French Policeman

Ingo Hülsmann character SS-Sturmbannführer Farber

Elena Stetsenko character Stenographer

Gennadiy Fomin character Farmer

Anton Zhukov character German Soldier Innsbruck

Maximilian Anthony Hirschle character American Soldier