Persian Lessons (2020)
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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Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
as Gilles
as Gilles
Lars Eidinger
as Klaus Koch
as Klaus Koch
Jonas Nay
as Max
as Max
Leonie Benesch
as Elsa
as Elsa
Alexander Beyer
as Camp Commander
as Camp Commander
David Schütter
as Paul
as Paul
Luisa-Céline Gaffron
as Yana
as Yana
Andreas Hofer
as Adjutant von Dewitz
as Adjutant von Dewitz
Giuseppe Schillaci
as Marco Rossi
as Marco Rossi
Antonin Chalon
as Jacob Rossi
as Jacob Rossi
Lola Bessis
as Melanie
as Melanie
Mehdi Rahim-Silvioli
as Nathan
as Nathan
Sofya Gershevich
as Melanie
as Melanie
Nico Ehrenteit
as Obersturmführer Krupp
as Obersturmführer Krupp
Gareth McGregor
as US Army Officer
as US Army Officer
Marcus Calvin
as American Investigator
as American Investigator
Peter Beck
as Nazi Doctor
as Nazi Doctor
Felix von Bredow
as SS-Untersturmführer Siemens
as SS-Untersturmführer Siemens
Oleg Veber
as German soldier
as German soldier
Svetlana Anikey
as SS German Girl 1
as SS German Girl 1
Anastasia Gudei
as SS German Girl 2
as SS German Girl 2
Veronika Buslaeva
as SS German Girl 3
as SS German Girl 3
Elena Girenok
as SS German Girl 4
as SS German Girl 4
Serge Barbagallo
as France KAPO
as France KAPO
Pascal Elso
as French Policeman
as French Policeman
Ingo Hülsmann
as SS-Sturmbannführer Farber
as SS-Sturmbannführer Farber
Elena Stetsenko
as Stenographer
as Stenographer
Gennadiy Fomin
as Farmer
as Farmer
Anton Zhukov
as German Soldier Innsbruck
as German Soldier Innsbruck
Maximilian Anthony Hirschle
as American Soldier
as American Soldier
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Sergey Toktarov
Visual Effects Supervisor
Visual Effects Supervisor
Nadezhda Zezyukova
Visual Effects Producer
Visual Effects Producer
Murad Osmann
Producer
Producer
Ilya Zofin
Screenplay
Screenplay
Vessela Martschewski
Editor
Editor
Vadim Perelman
Director
Director
Pavel Burya
Producer
Producer
Vladislav Opelyants
Director of Photography
Director of Photography
Ilya Stewart
Producer
Producer
Ilya Dzhincharadze
Co-Producer
Co-Producer
Sacha Galperine
Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
Jamila Wenske
Co-Producer
Co-Producer
Sol Bondy
Co-Producer
Co-Producer
Evgueni Galperine
Original Music Composer
Original Music Composer
Elizaveta Chalenko
Co-Producer
Co-Producer
Leonid Shpolsky
Co-Producer
Co-Producer
Timur Bekmambetov
Producer
Producer
Rauf Atamalibekov
Producer
Producer
Ilya Zofin
Producer
Producer
Vadim Perelman
Producer
Producer
Dmitry Tatarnikov
Production Design
Production Design
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