Persian Lessons

2020 · Directed by Vadim Perelman

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.

War Drama

Cast: David Schütter, Lars Eidinger, Leonie Benesch, Jonas Nay, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Alexander Beyer, Nico Ehrenteit, Sofya Gershevich, Luisa-Céline Gaffron, Lola Bessis

Rating: 7.733/10 from 268 votes