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Persian Lessons
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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
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