Persian Lessons

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 Perelman

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  Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
  Gilles
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  Lars Eidinger
  Klaus Koch
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  Jonas Nay
  Max
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  Leonie Benesch
  Elsa
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  Alexander Beyer
  Camp Commander
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  David Schütter
  Paul
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  Luisa-Céline Gaffron
  Yana
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  Andreas Hofer
  Adjutant von Dewitz
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  Giuseppe Schillaci
  Marco Rossi
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  Antonin Chalon
  Jacob Rossi
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  Lola Bessis
  Melanie
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  Mehdi Rahim-Silvioli
  Nathan
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  Sofya Gershevich
  Melanie
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  Nico Ehrenteit
  Obersturmführer Krupp
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  Gareth McGregor
  US Army Officer
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  Marcus Calvin
  American Investigator
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  Peter Beck
  Nazi Doctor
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  Felix von Bredow
  SS-Untersturmführer Siemens
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  Oleg Veber
  German soldier
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  Svetlana Anikey
  SS German Girl 1