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.
- Year : 2020
- Country : Belarus, Germany, Russia
- Genre : War, Drama
- Studio : Hype Film, LM Media, One Two Films, Belarusfilm
- Keyword : nazi, concentration camp, world war ii, concentration camp prisoner, german officer, exhaustion, fictional language, jewish
- Director : Vadim Perelman
- Cast : Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Jonas Nay, Leonie Benesch, Alexander Beyer, David Schütter