Persian Lessons

7.6

127 minutes

4/17/2020

Overview

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.

Cast List

Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
as Gilles
Lars Eidinger
as Klaus Koch
Jonas Nay
as Max
Leonie Benesch
as Elsa
Alexander Beyer
as Camp Commander
David Schütter
as Paul
Luisa-Céline Gaffron
as Yana
Andreas Hofer
as Adjutant von Dewitz
Giuseppe Schillaci
as Marco Rossi
Antonin Chalon
as Jacob Rossi
Lola Bessis
as Melanie
Mehdi Rahim-Silvioli
as Nathan
Sofya Gershevich
as Melanie
Nico Ehrenteit
as Obersturmführer Krupp
Gareth McGregor
as US Army Officer
Marcus Calvin
as American Investigator
Peter Beck
as Nazi Doctor
Felix von Bredow
as SS-Untersturmführer Siemens
Oleg Veber
as German soldier
Svetlana Anikey
as SS German Girl 1
Anastasia Gudei
as SS German Girl 2
Veronika Buslaeva
as SS German Girl 3
Elena Girenok
as SS German Girl 4
Serge Barbagallo
as France KAPO
Pascal Elso
as French Policeman
Ingo Hülsmann
as SS-Sturmbannführer Farber
Elena Stetsenko
as Stenographer
Gennadiy Fomin
as Farmer
Anton Zhukov
as German Soldier Innsbruck
Maximilian Anthony Hirschle
as American Soldier