Film
Persian Lessons
2020· M· 2h 7m· Drama· War
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.
2020-04-17
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DirectorVadim Perelman
ScreenplayIlya Zofin
ProducerIlya Stewart
Director of PhotographyVladislav Opelyants
Original Music ComposerEvgueni Galperine
EditorVessela Martschewski
Full cast & crew (30 cast · 21 crew)
Details
Released2020-04-17
Runtime2h 7m · M
StatusReleased
StudiosLM Media · One Two Films · Belarusfilm
Box office$4M
LanguagesEnglish · French · German · Italian
CountriesRussia · Germany · Belarus · France
Rating7.5/10 · 483 votes
Original languagede
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