Persian Lessons

Synopsis

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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Cast

Nahuel Pérez Biscayart

Gilles

Lars Eidinger

Klaus Koch

Jonas Nay

Max

Leonie Benesch

Elsa

Alexander Beyer

Camp Commander

David Schütter

Paul

Luisa-Céline Gaffron

Yana

Andreas Hofer

Adjutant von Dewitz

Giuseppe Schillaci

Marco Rossi

Antonin Chalon

Jacob Rossi

Lola Bessis

Melanie

Mehdi Rahim-Silvioli

Nathan

Sofya Gershevich

Melanie

Nico Ehrenteit

Obersturmführer Krupp

Gareth McGregor

US Army Officer

Marcus Calvin

American Investigator

Peter Beck

Nazi Doctor

Felix von Bredow

SS-Untersturmführer Siemens

Oleg Veber

German soldier

Svetlana Anikey

SS German Girl 1

Crew

Art

• Dmitry Tatarnikov Production Design

Camera

• Vladislav Opelyants Director of Photography

Directing

• Vadim Perelman Director

Editing

• Vessela Martschewski Editor

Production

• Murad Osmann Producer
• Pavel Burya Producer
• Ilya Stewart Producer
• Leonid Shpolsky Co-Producer
• Ilya Dzhincharadze Co-Producer
• Elizaveta Chalenko Co-Producer
• Jamila Wenske Co-Producer
• Sol Bondy Co-Producer
• Rauf Atamalibekov Producer
• Timur Bekmambetov Producer
• Ilya Zofin Producer
• Vadim Perelman Producer

Sound

• Sacha Galperine Original Music Composer
• Evgueni Galperine Original Music Composer

Visual Effects

• Sergey Toktarov Visual Effects Supervisor
• Nadezhda Zezyukova Visual Effects Producer

Writing

• Ilya Zofin Screenplay

Photos