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Persian Lessons (2020)

2020-04-17 · 2h 7m · DE
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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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Vadim PerelmanDirector
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Nahuel Pérez BiscayartNahuel Pérez BiscayartGillesLars EidingerLars EidingerKlaus KochJonas NayJonas NayMaxLeonie BeneschLeonie BeneschElsaAlexander BeyerAlexander BeyerCamp CommanderDavid SchütterDavid SchütterPaulLuisa-Céline GaffronLuisa-Céline GaffronYanaAndreas HoferAndreas HoferAdjutant von DewitzGiuseppe SchillaciGiuseppe SchillaciMarco RossiAntonin ChalonAntonin ChalonJacob RossiLola BessisLola BessisMelanieMehdi Rahim-SilvioliMehdi Rahim-SilvioliNathan

Keywords

World war iiNaziFictional languageConcentration campConcentration camp prisonerGerman officerPersianJewishExhaustion

Movie DNA

Genre affinityDrama · WarTheme affinityWorld War Ii · Nazi · Fictional LanguageDialogue densityDramaEmotional intensityWar · World War IiDirector preference209249Actor preference274865 · 518311 · 445268

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What is Persian Lessons about?

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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Persian Lessons has a runtime of 127 minutes.

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